Stanley Alexander Weigel
{{Short description|American judge}}
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| office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
| term_start = October 9, 1982
| term_end = September 30, 1997
| office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
| term_start1 = August 15, 1962
| term_end1 = October 9, 1982
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| birth_place = Helena, Montana
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| death_place = San Francisco, California
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Stanley Alexander Weigel (December 9, 1905 – September 1, 1999) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Education and career
Born in Helena, Montana, Weigel was raised in San Francisco, California and attended Lowell High School.{{cite news|title=Obituary: Stanley Weigel|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stanley-Weigel-2910268.php|accessdate=May 9, 2017|work=San Francisco Gate|date=September 4, 1999}} He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Stanford University in 1926 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1928.{{cite news|last1=Saxon|first1=Wolfgang|title=Judge Stanley Weigel, 93, Dies; Acted to Improve Prisons|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/04/us/judge-stanley-weigel-93-dies-acted-to-improve-prisons.html|accessdate=May 9, 2017|work=New York Times|date=September 4, 1999}} He was in private practice in San Francisco from 1928 to 1962. He was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant during World War II, from 1943 to 1945.{{cite news|last1=Woo|first1=Elaine|title=Stanley Weigel; Longtime Federal Judge|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-04-me-6810-story.html|access-date=May 9, 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 4, 1999}} He was a nonresident lecturer at Stanford Law School beginning in 1952.{{FJC Bio|2533|nid=1389526|name=Stanley Alexander Weigel}}
=Notable clients=
In 1949, Weigel represented a group of professors at the University of California dismissed for refusing to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath.{{cite book|last1=Domnarski|first1=William|title=Federal Judges Revealed|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195374599|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0RRDAAAQBAJ&q=Stanley+Alexander+Weigel&pg=PA93|accessdate=May 9, 2017}}
Federal judicial service
Weigel was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on July 6, 1962, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by Judge Louis Earl Goodman. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 9, 1962, and received his commission on August 15, 1962. He was a member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation from 1968 to 1979. He was a Judge of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1993. He assumed senior status on October 9, 1982. Weigel retired September 30, 1997.
Personal life
References
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Sources
- {{FJC Bio|2533|nid=1389526|name=Stanley Alexander Weigel}}
External links
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Fletcher|editor1-first=William|title=Stanley Weigel: Litigator and Federal Judge|date=2000|publisher=The Bancroft Library Oral History Project, University of California|location=Berkeley, California|url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/rohoia/ucb/text/litigatorstanley00weigrich.pdf|accessdate=May 10, 2017}}
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Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Category:United States district court judges appointed by John F. Kennedy
Category:Stanford Law School alumni
Category:United States Navy officers
Category:California Republicans
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