A. Wallace Tashima

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Atsushi Wallace Tashima (Japanese : 田島 篤, born June 24, 1934) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California . He is the third Asian American and first Japanese American to be appointed to a United States Court of Appeals .

Contents

• 1 Early life

• 2 Career

• 3 Federal judicial service

• 4 Notable cases

• 5 Personal life

• 6 Awards

• 7 See also

• 8 References

• 9 Sources

Early life

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Atsushi Wallace Tashima was born in 1934 in Santa Maria , California , to Yasutaro and Aya Tashima. He is Nisei Japanese American . During World War II he was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona , an internment camp for Japanese Americans . After the war his family moved to Southern California. He lived in Boyle Heights , graduating from Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles . From 1953 to 1956, Tashima served in the United States Marine Corps , and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant . He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Harvard Law School in 1961.

Career

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Upon graduation from law school, from 1962 to 1968, Tashima became the Deputy State Attorney General for the State of California . He then joined the Amstar Corporation as an attorney in its Spreckels Sugar Division (1968–1972) and then as the general attorney and vice president of Amstar from 1972 to 1977. Tashima returned to private practice in 1977, as a partner at Morrison & Foerster , in Los Angeles.

Federal judicial service

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Tashima was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on May 9, 1980, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Central District of California vacated by Judge Warren J. Ferguson . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 26, 1980, and received commission on June 30, 1980. His service terminated on January 8, 1996, due to elevation to the Ninth Circuit.

Tashima was nominated by President Bill Clinton on April 6, 1995, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Judge Arthur Alarcón . He was confirmed by the Senate on January 2, 1996, and received commission on January 4, 1996. He assumed senior status on June 30, 2004.

Notable cases

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• Donald Walden Jr. v. the State of Nevada: On December 23, 2019, Judge Tashima ruled in favor of workers that were not paid for overtime work. In the ruling, Tashima also ruled that a state waives its 11th Amendment rights when taking the case to federal court.

• East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr, No. 19-16487 (9th Cir. Aug. 16, 2019): Judge Tashima partially dissented when the Ninth Circuit held 2-1 that President Trump's asylum ban could take place in New Mexico and Texas but not California or Arizona. Tashima would have blocked the asylum ban in all four states.

• Flores v. Barr, No. 17-56297 (9th Cir. Aug. 15, 2019): Judge Tashima was in a unanimous decision (with Marsha S. Berzon and William A. Fletcher) that ruled that detained migrant children must get sleep, soap, and clean water.

• the United States v. Neal Bain, No. 17-10107 (9th Cir. June 11, 2019): Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Tashima overturned a conviction for armed bank robbery. He held that the defendant's inadvertent placement of a closed pocket knife on a bank counter did not constitute "armed" bank robbery because this action did not "put[] in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon," which is a requirement for armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d).

• On March 8, 2019, Judge Tashima ruled that asylum seekers are entitled to habeas review and have the right to appeal their deportations.

• _United States v. Sineneng-Smith _, No. 15-10614 (9th Cir. Dec. 4, 2018): Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Tashima struck down a statute as unconstitutionally over

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