William H. Pauley III

William H. Pauley III

Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Incumbent
Assumed office October 22, 1998
Nominated by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Peter K. Leisure
Personal details
Born	(1952-08-14) August 14, 1952 Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Duke University (B.A., J.D)

William H. Pauley III (born August 14, 1952) is a United States federal judge.

Early life and education

Born in Glen Cove, New York, Pauley received an A.B. from Duke University in 1974 and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1977. He was a law clerk, Office of the Nassau County Attorney, New York from 1977 to 1978. He was a Deputy county attorney of Nassau County Attorney' Office, New York in 1978. He was in private practice in New York City from 1978 to 1998. He was an Assistant counsel, New York State Assembly Minority Leader, New York from 1984 to 1998.

Federal judicial service

Pauley is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Pauley was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 21, 1998, to a seat vacated by Peter K. Leisure. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998, and received his commission on October 22, 1998.

Notable decisions

Among his notable decisions was that involving Ben-ami Kadish, a U.S. national who pleaded guilty to passing classified information to Israel. On December 27, 2013, he also ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of metadata on nearly every phone call made in the United States is legal.^[1]^[2] Pauley's ruling contrasted with a ruling of a similar suit in the D.C. District by Richard J. Leon.^[3] On May 7, 2015, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his ruling and remanded the case for further consideration.^[4]

References

External links

William H. Pauley III at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Peter K. Leisure	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 1998–present	Incumbent

Currently active district judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Connecticut	Hall Chatigny Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden

E. New York	Irizarry Amon Bianco Vitaliano Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack Donnelly Hall 2 seats vacant

N. New York	Suddaby Hurd D'Agostino Sannes 1 seat vacant

S. New York	Preska Koeltl McMahon Pauley Daniels Swain Castel Karas Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni 1 seat vacant

W. New York	Geraci Wolford Vilardo 1 seat vacant

Vermont	Reiss Crawford

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 107447396 LCCN: no2010028776

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