Leonard Burke Sand

American judge

Leonard Burke Sand (May 24, 1928 – December 3, 2016) was an American judge who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York .

Early life and education

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Sand was born and raised in The Bronx , New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the New York University School of Commerce (now the New York University Stern School of Business ) in 1947 and a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1951, where he was the notes editor for the _Harvard Law Review _.

Sand served as a United States Naval Reserve Ensign from 1951 to 1953.

Career

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After law school, Sand served as a law clerk to Judge Irving Kaufman , then on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . In 1953, Sand was appointed assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving in the Criminal Division, which was followed by two years in private practice with the firm of Rosenman, Goldmark, Colin & Kaye (later renamed Rosenman & Colin , LLP). From 1956 to 1959, he served as an assistant to the United States solicitor general in Washington, D.C. , during which he argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States .

Sand then reentered private practice in New York, eventually becoming a named partner of the firm then known as Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, Sand & Berman (renamed Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, and Berman after Sand's appointment to the bench). While in private practice, he successfully argued WMCA, Inc. v. Lomenzo, 377 U.S. 633 (1964), before the Supreme Court of the United States, a redistricting case decided in tandem with Reynolds v. Sims .

The Court had set aside a week to hear nothing but reapportionment cases, and Sand was the first litigator to argue that week. He recalled being bombarded with questions from the justices. He was elected as a Delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1967.

Federal judicial service

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Sand was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on April 7, 1978, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge Charles Miller Metzner . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 17, 1978, and received his commission on May 19, 1978. Sand sat by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . He assumed senior status on July 1, 1993, serving in that status until his death on December 3, 2016, in Sleepy Hollow , New York. During his service on the court, Sand also served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law , where he taught, along with Judge John G. Koeltl , a seminar on constitutional litigation.

As a senior judge, Sand donated his collected papers to the Pace Law School Archives at the Pace University School of Law .

Notable clerks

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Sand's former law clerks include law professor Ann Althouse , Columbia University 's General Counsel Jane E. Booth, the Hearst Corporation 's Senior Vice President and General Counsel Eve Burton, Massachusetts Appeals Court Associate Justice Gary S. Katzmann, Microsoft 's Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy Tom Rubin, Ernst & Young 's Global Vice Chair and General Counsel Michael S. Solender,

former interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Alan Vinegrad, Partner in the Real Estate group at Sullivan and Cromwell Arthur S. Adler, and Colorado Fourth Judicial District judge Eric Bentley.

Notable cases

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Two years into his time as a federal judge, Sand was assigned the landmark desegregation case _United States v. City of Yonkers _. A d

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