Jed S. Rakoff

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Jed Saul Rakoff (born 1943) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York . He was appointed in 1996 by President Bill Clinton , and assumed senior status in 2010.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Career

• 3 Federal judicial service

• 4 Academic and foundation service

• 5 Visiting judicial service

• 6 Travel ban

• 7 Recognition

• 8 Legal expertise

• 9 Notable cases

  • 9.1 United States v. Quinones

  • 9.2 Aguinda v. Texaco

  • 9.3 Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan

  • 9.4 SEC v. WorldCom

  • 9.5 Associated Press v. Dept. of Defense

  • 9.6 Bailey v. Pataki

  • 9.7 United States v. Adelson

  • 9.8 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Bank of America

  • 9.9 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Citigroup

  • 9.10 Arce v. Douglas

  • 9.11 United States v. Gupta

  • 9.12 United States v. Salman

  • 9.13 United States v. Cesar Altieri Sayoc

  • 9.14 State of New York v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  • 9.15 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Michael Regan

  • 9.16 United States v. Schultz

  • 9.17 United States v. Al Kassar

  • 9.18 Epstein litigation

  • 9.19 SEC v. Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd.

  • 9.20 United States v. Ramsay

• 10 Writings

  • 10.1 Articles

• 11 Personal

• 12 See also

• 13 References

• 14 External links

Early life and education

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Rakoff is Jewish and was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, in 1943.

He grew up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia and attended Central High School of Philadelphia . Rakoff received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Swarthmore College in 1964, where he was student council president and editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He earned his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Indian history in 1966 from Balliol College at Oxford University , and received a Juris Doctor , cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1969, where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau . He has received honorary degrees from Saint Francis University and from Swarthmore.

Career

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After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Abraham Lincoln Freedman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1969 to 1970. Then, Rakoff spent two years in private practice at Debevoise & Plimpton before spending seven years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York . For the last two of those years, he was Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Prosecutions Unit. He then returned to private practice, as a partner with [

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