Larry R. Hicks (born December 13, 1943) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Education and career

Born in Evanston,

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, Hicks received a

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degree from the

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in 1965 and a

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from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1968. He was a

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, Washoe County District Attorney's Office, Nevada in 1968, and was then an attorney in that office from 1968 to 1974, and District Attorney of Washoe County from 1975 to 1979. He entered private practice in

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in 1979, remaining in practice until 2001.

District court service

On September 4, 2001, Hicks was nominated by President

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to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada vacated by

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. Hicks was confirmed by the

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on November 5, 2001, and received his commission on November 7, 2001. He took

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on December 13, 2012, and was succeeded by

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Cases

In 2011, he was asked by

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tribes of Northern Nevada to maintain a 2009 restriction that protected the region's environment against Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp' s wish to expand its gold-extraction operations on their land considered sacred. In October 2013, he sent Nevada power broker

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to a 2-year prison sentence for making illegal contributions to Harry Reid's campaign in 2007. In February 2015, he granted a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Land Management's removal of 200 wild horses in Northern Nevada, and the roundup of 166 others with porcine zona pellucida. In March 2017, he sentenced an Indian man to 15 years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in his homeland from the US. In August 2018, he granted a new injunction in favor of Oracle in the case '' Rimini Street Inc. v. Oracle USA Inc.'', which led Rimini Street to forward $28.5 million in attorney's fees. In November 2018, he refused the right to strike to garbage collectors employed by Waste Management of Nevada. They were asking for longer, less-supervised lunch breaks.

Family

Larry R. Hicks is the father of Chris Hicks, the 37th District Attorney in Washoe County since January 2015.Emerson Marcus
Gammick-backed deputy running unopposed for DA
''Rgj.com'', 30 March 2014

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hicks, Larry R. 1943 births 21st-century American judges Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Living people People from Evanston, Illinois United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush University of Colorado Law School alumni University of Nevada alumni