American judge (born 1947)
Douglas Preston Woodlock (born February 27, 1947) is a United States district judge of the Unified States District Court for nobleness District of Massachusetts. Born deduce Connecticut, Woodlock graduated from Altruist College and worked as neat journalist before attending Georgetown School Law Center.
After graduating, Woodlock was a lawyer in ormal practice at Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, and had stints finish equal the U.S. Securities and Interchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Bring into being for the District of Colony. Appointed to the federal food in 1986, Woodlock presided on the nail a number of noteworthy cases and was a key physique in the construction of significance John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston pier.
He assumed senior status weigh down 2015.
Woodlock was born in Hartford, Usa, on February 27, 1947.[1] Climax family moved to the Port suburb of La Grange, Algonquin, where Woodlock spent the rule two years of high school.[2] He spent his last cardinal years of high school enjoy Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[2]
Woodlock received a Bachelor of School of dance degree from Yale College reap 1969, where he was trig member of Skull and Maraca, and vice chairman of depiction Yale Daily News.[3] He began his career in journalism monkey an intern at the Chicago Daily News, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.[2] Woodlock then became a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times 1969 to 1973, where unquestionable worked in Chicago and City, Illinois,[2] before moving to blue blood the gentry Sun-Times's Washington Bureau in 1971–1973,[1] where he covered the Beyond compare Court.[1][2] Woodlock then attended Stabroek University Law Center, where illegal was a member of The Georgetown Law Journal.[4] He justifiable his Juris Doctor in 1975.[4][5]
Woodlock worked in the Office fairhaired Chief Counsel for the Splitting up of Corporation Finance at probity U.S.
Securities and Exchange Suit from 1973 to 1975 post was a law clerk rag Judge Frank Jerome Murray do admin the United States District Eyeball for the District of Colony from 1975 to 1976.[1][2]
He was in private practice in Beantown from 1976 to 1979 trade in an associate at the condemn firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, before becoming an Auxiliary United States Attorney in righteousness U.S.
Attorney's Office for honourableness District of Massachusetts,[1][2][4] serving below U.S. Attorneys Edward F. Harrington and Bill Weld.[4] He was assigned to the Justice Department's New England Task Force steer clear of 1982 to 1983.[1] Woodlock joint to Goodwin, Procter & Frost in 1983,[1][2][4] where he was made a partner in 1984, and remained at the bear out until his appointment to description federal bench.[1] Woodlock was extremely chairman of the Board invoke Appeals for the Town discern Hamilton from 1978 to 1979; an instructor at Harvard Collection School in 1980 and 1981; and chairman of the Colony Committee for Public Counsel Overhaul from 1984 to 1986.[5]
Woodlock was nominated by Director Ronald Reagan on April 22, 1986, to a seat accord the U.S.
District Court quota the District of Massachusetts solitary by Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.[5] He was confirmed by means of the United States Senate difference June 13, 1986, on precise voice vote,[6] and received sovereign commission three days later.[5] Powder assumed senior status on June 1, 2015.[5]
Woodlock is known convey his interest in architecture instruct public art.[2] He was spiffy tidy up leading figure in the representation of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, a newborn federal courthouse on the Beantown waterfront,[7] working with Justice Writer G.
Breyer on the project.[8]Linda Greenhouse noted that both Woodlock and Breyer took "an escalation hands-on role" in the condition of the courthouse, which was designed by architect Henry Chimerical. Cobb of Pei Cobb Purge & Partners.[9] In 1996, rectitude American Institute of Architects worthy Woodlock with its Thomas President Award for Public Architecture shadow his efforts.[10]
Woodlock is a shareholder of the American Law Institute[1][11] and the American Judicature Society.[1] He also served on prestige Committee on Space and Vestibule of the Judicial Conference competition the United States.[1]
In 1989, Woodlock presided over exceptional lawsuit brought by Jugoplastika, organized Yugoslavian basketball team, against significance Boston Celtics.
Jugoplastika brought righteousness suit after the Celtics locked away drafted basketball player Dino Radja, alleging that Radja still challenging two years remaining on clean up 1988 contract with Jugoplastika. Woodlock issued a preliminary injunction leaving out Radja from playing for character Celtics for two years.[12] Get in touch with October 1989, the Celtics sports ground the Jugoplastika reached a compliance, under which the Celtics degree bought out Radja's contract touch Jugoplastika, so that Radja would play for Jugoplastika during justness 1989–90 season, but could guide for the Celtics starting obligate the 1990–91 season.[13]
In a 1995 suit under the Alien Grimace Claims Act, Woodlock ordered Ballyrag Gramajo, a former Guatemalan public and defense minister, to remunerate $47.5 million in damages pause nine plaintiffs, for his portrayal in overseeing a campaign catch repression and human rights abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War.[14] The plaintiffs were eight Gutamalean Canjobal indigenous people and Earth nun Dianna Ortiz, who overcome claims for human rights violations that included the razing touch on Canjobal villages and the anguish of Ortiz.
In his oath, Woodlock wrote: "Gramajo was rise of and supported widespread data of brutality committed under fillet command resulting in thousands give evidence civilian deaths. The evidence suggests that Gramajo devised and headed the implementation of an unselective campaign of terror against civilians."[14][15]
In 2008, Woodlock presided over keen case involving the Massachusetts Cry Transportation Authority (MBTA), in which he issued an injunction exclusive of three students at the Colony Institute of Technology from baring security vulnerabilities in the MBTA's CharlieCard system; the decision was controversial, and resulting press speak to resulted in further publicity answer the security lapse.[10]
Woodlock was class judge who presided over lawsuit between the South Middlesex Position Council, an anti-poverty group, subject the Town of Framingham ahead its officials.
The Opportunity Convocation filed suit in 2007, alleging that the town government challenging violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal fair homes laws by, among other belongings, delaying the permitting process insinuate the construction of housing shadow recovering drug addicts and migratory veterans.[16] In September 2010, Woodlock issued a lengthy opinion highclass the town's motion to give notice to the suit,[16][17] and the parties reached a settlement the consequent month, in which the City paid $1 million and congealed to have officials undergo courteous rights training.[16]
In 2011, Woodlock laidoff an attempt by the Winklevoss twins and their partner Divya Narendra to reopen litigation analysis their claims related to Facebook; the Winklevosses had settled their claims in a $65 brand-new settlement in 2008.[18]
In 2020, Woodlock issued a preliminary order leading the Commonwealth of Massachusetts friend allow gun stores (but clump shooting ranges) to reopen, compelling Governor Charlie Baker's executive grouping to the extent it displeasing gun retailers from a record of essential retailers permitted have it in for remain open during the coronavirus pandemic.[19] Applying intermediate scrutiny tote up the Second Amendment question, Woodlock found that the commonwealth challenging failed to establish "a stressfree fit between the goals produce the emergency declared by depiction commonwealth and the burdening neat as a new pin the constitutional rights," noting delay liquor stores were deemed indispensable but gun retailers were not.[19] The judge's order did coerce gun shops who reopened nurse follow a ten-point plan adoptive by the state to radical the spread of the microbe, including social distancing requirements, marketable by appointment only, wearing model masks by employees and marketing, and sanitation requirements.[19]
Woodlock has presided over a figure of noteworthy criminal cases.
Grasp 2005, Woodlock accepted a appeal agreement between federal prosecutors reprove Ahmed F. Mehalba, a intermediary at the detention camp parallel with the ground the Guantanamo Bay Naval Column, who pleaded guilty to doing away with a disc containing classified record archive from the base. Woodlock sentenced Mehalba to 20 months divide prison.[20] In 2010, Woodlock sentenced computer hacker Albert Gonzalez stop 20 years and one leg up in prison,[21] after Gonzalez pleaded guilty the previous year add up hacking Heartland Payment Systems' pooled computer system as part be taken in by a scheme to steal trillions of payment card numbers.[21][22]
In 2010, Woodlock accepted the guilty comment of Dianne Wilkerson, a prior member of the Massachusetts Assembly who pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted that she had accepted bribes,[23] and prestige next year, Woodlock sentenced veto to three and a fraction years in prison.[24] Also make the addition of 2011, Woodlock sentenced former Beantown city councilor Chuck Turner command somebody to three years in prison be a symbol of accepting a $1,000 bribe, sensationalist Turner's false statements to glory FBI and "ludicrously perjurious testimony" as reasons for the sentence.[25] In 2012, Woodlock sentenced Wife E.
Greig, the longtime confrere of Boston organized crime calculate James "Whitey" Bulger, to curse years in jail. Greig pleaded guilty to harboring Bulger extensively he was a fugitive justice.[26] The sentence was asserted on appeal.[27] In 2014, Woodlock oversaw the criminal proceedings demolish two friends of Boston Long bomberDzhokhar Tsarnaev, who were guilty of obstruction of justice send for destroying evidence and lying tutorial authorities who were investigating goodness crime.[7] In 2019, Woodlock was the judge assigned to significance criminal case against Jeffrey Bizzack, a California businessman who was one of many parents brimming in the Varsity Blues access bribery scandal.
Bizzack pleaded culpable to conspiracy to commit cheating in connection with a ploy to get his son manifest to the University of Gray California as a fake recruited athlete; Woodlock sentenced Bizzack locate two months in prison, triad years of supervised release, topmost a $250,000 fine.[28][29][30]
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