Ronald Lee Gilman (born October 16, 1942 in

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) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the

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Education and career

Gilman attended the

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in 1964 and received a Scientiae Baccalaureus degree in Economics. In 1967, he obtained a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Gilman privately practiced law in Memphis and became a professor at the

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in 1980. In 1988 he became an arbitrator and mediator at the American Arbitration Association. In 1993, Gilman became an arbitrator and mediator at the

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. He was a referee at the Private Adjudication Center from 1993 to 1997.

Federal judicial service

Gilman was nominated to the

by President

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on July 16, 1997 after the seat had been vacated by Judge Herbert Theodore Milburn. On November 6, 1997, Gilman was confirmed by the

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by a 98-1 vote, with Senator

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being the lone senator voting against him. He received his commission on November 7, 1997. He assumed

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on November 21, 2010.

Notable cases

In ''

ACLU v. NSA ''American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency'', 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007), is a case decided July 6, 2007, in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the plaintiffs in the case did not have stand ...

'', the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided to vacate the District Court's decision that the extrajudicial electronic intercepts of the

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, where one party is within the U.S. and the other is outside, violated the law. The Court decided that the plaintiffs lacked standing. Judge Ronald Gilman wrote a long dissent, in which he argued that the plaintiffs did have standing, and that the Terrorist Surveillance Program as originally implemented violated the FISA. Appeals judges Ronald Gilman, Gilbert Merritt, and

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unanimously reversed the decision of United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell, who had ruled in August 1997 against Jefferson County officials, therefore allowing county fiscal judges to regulate adult businesses.

References

Sources

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