Talk:Jed S. Rakoff

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Content error?

There seems to be an inconsistency in the "Selected Notable Cases" section:

"Judge Rakoff has held the federal death penalty constitutional"

"In 2002, Rakoff declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.97.141 (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of this case, is it notable enough?

In re New York Times Company to Unseal Wiretap and Search Warrant Materials. It involved Governor Spitzer of New York and the prostitution ring bust. here —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshNarins (talk • contribs) 18:51, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

United States v. Marco Fidel Castellar

This case appears lacking in notability and moreover the references made are not referenced to documents. Any lawyers out there who can comment? I propose to remove the whole section as I did earlier (before it was restored) on the basis of lack of notability and poor sourcing. Tglaisyer (talk) 03:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Given a lack of response I'm removing the section as I just don't think it is notable. Tglaisyer (talk) 19:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The importance of a case is not measured by notability, but by the manner justice was imparted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.27.7 (talk) 01:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might think that federal judges are beyond reproach. That is not the case with Federal Judge Jed S Rakoff, a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York appointed to the bench since January 4, 1996. As his biography states, Rakoff graduated with honors in English literature from Swarthmore College (B.A. 1964), earned his M. Phil. from Balliol College at Oxford University (1966), and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School (J.D. 1969). He has received honorary degrees from Saint Francis University and from Swarthmore. He is, by all definitions, an erudite.

Yet,whether you believe it or not, in the recent case of United States v. Marco Castellar (03) Cr 891 (JSR) S.D.N.Y he seems to have gone crazy, and violated his oath of office when he ignored Castellar's claims that the Internal Revenue Service had falsified the official transcript of certain exculpatory Brady material, which consists of the criminal falsification of the translation of a videotape of a failed undercover operation that totally exculpates Mr. Castellar. Unfairly, the government used this falsified translation against Castellar during trial which greatly contributed to Castellar's conviction on certain counts. A frustrated Mr. Castellar indicated to Judge Rakoff---who refused to inquiry into the matter to protect the goverment's interest and that of his long time Ex-Colleague at the U.S. Attorney's Office at the S.D.N.Y, Federal Prosecutor Peter B Sobol,---that he "had let the government get away with murder." This was not fair

Mr. Castellar subsequently contacted the FBI who does not really want to get involved because it involves a federal judge and federal prosecutors. But the investigation is now in Washington at the DOJ OPR. Castellar indicated to the FBI that no one is above the law.

To complicate matters even more, Judge Rakoff altered the minutes of the various proceedings, and the hand written alterations can be seen on the original transcripts. He shows himself defiant and indicates that the alterations are proper. What can be done about judges who think they are above the law?

According to you, Mr.....Nothing —Preceding unsigned comment added by Taxcat (talk • contribs) 14:44, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot-created subpage

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Jed Saul Rakoff was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 18:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interview text removed

I removed from this article text quoted from an interview he gave to the Huffington Post, as it appears to me it was not in the public domain and the use of copyrighted material was too excessive to be fair use. The shorter quotes from his judgements are probably acceptable. Robofish (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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