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Jul. 5, 2011

Samuel Conti

Samuel Conti once sent draft dodgers to jail. Now, he's presiding over a landmark veterans' case.

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Samuel Conti
U.S. Northern District of California (San Francisco)

By John Roemer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO Senior U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti was steamed, and the hapless government lawyer standing before him at a status conference in a landmark veterans' rights case was in his crosshairs.

During Conti's four decade career on the Northern District bench, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Bensing was hardly the first lawyer to draw the short-tempered jurist's wrath, and he's unlikely to... (continued)

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