Tanya S. Chutkan

Tanya Sue Chutkan
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Assumed office
June 5, 2014
Appointed by Barack Obama
Preceded by Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089
Personal details
Born (1962-07-05) July 5, 1962
Kingston, Jamaica
Education George Washington University (B.A.)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.)

Tanya Sue Chutkan (born July 5, 1962) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Biography

Chutkan was born on July 5, 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica.[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 from George Washington University and a Juris Doctor in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 1987 to 1990, she worked at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells). From 1990 to 1991, she worked at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Rogovin, Huge & Schiller. From 1991 to 2002, she was a trial attorney and supervisor at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She was a partner at the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, where her practice focused on complex civil litigation and specifically antitrust class action cases.[2][3]

Her husband Peter Arno Krauthamer, a judge to the bench in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 11, 2011.[4]

Federal judicial service

On December 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Chutkan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a new seat created pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, on July 1, 2013.[5][6] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on February 25, 2014.[7] On March 27, 2014 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[8] On May 22, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On Tuesday June 3, 2014 the United States Senate voted 54-40 on the motion to invoke cloture.[9] On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 the United States Senate voted in favor of final confirmation by a vote of 95-0.[10][11] She received her judicial commission on June 5, 2014.[3]

Notable cases

In February 2017, Public.Resource.Org was sued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Fire Protection Association, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, and other entities for scanning and making available building codes and fire codes which these organizations consider their copyrighted property.[12][13] Chutkan ruled against Public.Resource.Org, ordering all of the standards to be deleted from the Internet.[14]

In summer 2017 Chutkan was presiding over the Imran Awan and Hina Alvi fraud case.[15]

In Garza v. Hargan (2017), Chutkan ordered the Office of Refugee Resettlement to allow a girl in its care to have an abortion.[16] That ruling was vacated by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, reinstated by the full en banc D.C. Circuit, and ultimately mooted by the U.S. Supreme Court.[17] In March 2018, Chutkan certified a class action and ordered the government to provide access to abortions to all girls in ORR's custody.[18]

On June 8, 2018, Chutkan blocked until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military – with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, and his Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) identification card, as soon as the next day.[19][20]

References

  1. ↑ "Attorney Tanya S Chutkan - Lawyer in". www.lawyercentral.com.
  2. ↑ "President Obama Nominates Eight to Serve on the United States District Courts". 19 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Chutkan, Tanya Sue - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  4. ↑ "Peter Arno Krauthamer - Ballotpedia".
  5. ↑ "Pres. Nom. 2042, 113th Cong. (2013)". Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". 19 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Nominations". United States Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Executive Business Meeting" (PDF). United States Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 170. United States Senate. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  10. ↑ "Pres. Nom. 1227, 113th Cong. (2014)". Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 173. United States Senate. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  12. ↑ "Public.Resource.Org Fights Back Against Copyright Lawsuit". 20 August 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  13. ↑ Docket at Justia
  14. ↑ Masnick, Mike (February 3, 2017). "Federal Court Basically Says It's Okay To Copyright Parts Of Our Laws". Techdirt.
  15. ↑ "'Rigged' Awan Judge Appointed By Obama After Giving Thousands in Campaign Cash; Her Husband Appointed a Judge by Obama Too". 13 September 2017.
  16. ↑ Note, Recent Case: En Banc D.C. Circuit Upholds Order Requiring HHS to Allow an Undocumented Minor to Have an Abortion, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1812 (2018).
  17. ↑ Liptak, Adam (4 June 2018). "Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Discipline A.C.L.U." The New York Times. p. A14. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  18. ↑ Stevens, Matt (31 March 2018). "Judge Temporarily Stops U.S. From Blocking Undocumented Teenagers' Abortions". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  19. ↑ "Judge questions plan to release US detainee into Syrian war zone". The Daily Star. June 8, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  20. ↑ Gresko, Jessica (June 8, 2018). "Government will hold off releasing American back to Syria". WLNS. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
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Preceded by
Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089		 Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
2014–present		 Incumbent
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