Frank Easterbrook

(Redirected from Frank Hoover Easterbrook )

Frank Hoover Easterbrook (born September 3, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit . He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan , and he was the chief judge of the court from 2006 to 2013.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Early career

• 3 Federal judicial service

• 4 Influences

• 5 Notable cases

  • 5.1 Second Amendment cases

  • 5.2 Other cases

• 6 Academic work

• 7 Selected scholarly works

  • 7.1 Books

  • 7.2 Articles

• 8 See also

• 9 References

• 10 External links

Early life and education

(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Easterbrook&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Early life and education")

Easterbrook was born in Buffalo, New York , on September 3, 1948, the son of Vimy and George Easterbrook. His younger brothers are author Gregg Easterbrook and Neil Easterbrook, a professor at Texas Christian University . He attended Kenmore West High School in Tonawanda, New York .

After high school, Easterbrook attended Swarthmore College , where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received his Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in 1970. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School , where he was an editor of the _University of Chicago Law Review _ along with future judge Douglas H. Ginsburg . He graduated in 1973 with a J.D. and membership in the Order of the Coif .

Early career

(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Easterbrook&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Early career")

After law school, Easterbrook clerked for judge Levin Hicks Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1973 to 1974. He then joined the U.S. Solicitor General 's office as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, and was promoted in 1978 to Deputy Solicitor General. The solicitor general at the time was Robert Bork , and Easterbrook has reminisced that when he joined the Solicitor General's office, "_The Washington Post _ noted that around the same time the SG's Office had hired three lawyers either fresh from clerkships or lacking the customary appellate experience. None of us had clerked on the Supreme Court. The Post concluded that good lawyers were no longer willing to work for the Solicitor General and attributed this to Bork's role in firing Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor. The paper thought that dark days lay ahead for the Office with a second-rate staff. The three bottom-of-the-barrel selections were Robert Reich (later Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration), Danny Boggs (future Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit), and me." Easterbrook was considered "one of the very top advocates appearing before the Supreme Court in his days at the bar".

Easterbrook joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1978. He was a principal at the economics consulting firm Compass Lexecon from 1980 until his judicial appointment. Easterbrook argued 20 cases before the Supreme Court while in the Solicitor General's office and in private practice, including several landmark antitrust cases.

Federal judicial service

(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Easterbrook&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Federal judicial service")

Easterbrook was nominated to the court by President Ronald Reagan on August 1, 1984, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333, 346; the United States Senate did not act on his nomination that year, and he was renominated in Reagan's second term on February 25, 1985.

Easterbrook was confirmed by the Senate on April 3, 1985, and received his commission the next day. The American Bar Association gave Easterbrook a low "qualified/not qualified" rating, presumably due to his youth and relative inexperience. In 2001 this rating was claimed by the George W. Bush administration as evidence of liberal bias in the ABA in its announcement that it would no longer confer with the ABA in selecting judicial nominees.

Among Judge Easterbrook's most prominent opinions are:

• _American Booksellers v. Hudnut _ (1986)

• Kirchoff v. Flynn (1986)

• In re Erickson (1987)

• In re Sinclair (1989)

• United States v. Van Fossan (1990)

• Miller v. South Bend (1990)

• United States v. Marshall (1990)

…