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Lewis A. Kaplan

Born 1/1/1944

Judicial Career

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    8/10/1994 – present

Biography

Lewis Avins Kaplan is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was the presiding judge in a number of cases involving high-profile defendants, including E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump, Giuffre v. Prince Andrew, United States v. Bankman-Fried, and trials of al-Qaeda terrorists such as Ahmed Ghailani.

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