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José Cabranes is a United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1979, he became the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal district court in the continental United States when he joined the District of Connecticut. He has also served as a professor at both Yale Law Scho...
Irving Robert Kaufman, born in 1910 and deceased in 1992, was a United States federal judge who presided over the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Southern District of New York and sentenced them to death. In 1961 he joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, w...
Harold R. Medina was an American federal judge who presided over the 1949 trial of eleven Communist Party leaders prosecuted under the Smith Act. The case concerned allegations that the defendants advocated the overthrow of the United States government. Medina later served as a judge on the United S...
