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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 23, 2019

Longtime San Francisco magistrate judge to step down

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte, an expert in patent law and a co-founder of a group that trains young female lawyers how to stand up to harassment, has announced her retirement from the bench in October after 21 years on the bench.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte, an expert in patent law and a co-founder of a group that trains young female lawyers how to stand up to harassment, has announced her retirement from the bench in October after 21 years on the bench.

She is perhaps best known as the person who killed Joe Camel.

In 1996, as the chief of sp...

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