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Obituaries,
Judges and Judiciary,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Apr. 2, 2018

Stephen R. Reinhardt 1932-2018 Liberal icon of the 9th Circuit is dead

Forty years after Congress passed legislation that allowed President Jimmy Carter to reshape the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Stephen R. Reinhardt, who embodied the liberal jurisprudence the court developed in the decades following the president’s appointments, died.

Stephen R. Reinhardt 1932-2018 Liberal icon of the 9th Circuit is dead
Stephen R. Reinhardt

Forty years after Congress passed legislation that allowed President Jimmy Carter to reshape the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Stephen R. Reinhardt, who embodied the liberal jurisprudence the court developed in the decades following the president’s appointments, has died.

Reinhardt was the last of 15 judges Carter nominated to the circuit during the transformative period for the court, emerging as a champion of a liberal interp...

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