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Oral History of Honorable John Bates
Index
Adams, Cary, 59, 64, 67
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 118, 121, 235, 287
Administrative Procedure Act, 87, 260, 269, 271
Aetna (case )See United States v. Aetna
Affordable Care Act, 251, 266-67, 269
Agnew, Spiro, 60
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama (case), 216, 229
Al Magaleh v. Gates (case), 211
Ali v. Ashcroft (case) See Omar Abu Ali v. Ashcroft
Ali v. Gonzalez (case), 162-63, 167, 171
APA. See Administrative Procedure Act
Appellate Rules Committee
amicus disclosures, 287
Arch Coal (case) See Federal Trade Commission v. Arch Coal, Inc.
special master, 248
Ashcroft, John, 174
Association Health Care, 266, 268
Azar, Alex, 103
Baker, Tim, 60
Bates, Brian (son), 76
Bates, Carol Ann Rhees (wife), 4-5, 24, 30-31, 74-76, 80, 106, 114, 161
non-profit assisting AIDS orphans in Ethiopia, 78
sailor, 57
teaching, 77
Bates, Jenny (daughter-in-law), 76
Bates, Jim (brother), 4
Bates, John – Personal
anti-war movement, 25
assassination of Martin Luther King, 33
assassination of Robert Kennedy, 33
birth Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1
Civil Rights Movement influence, 22
high school
basketball, 15
gravitated towards math and sciences, 15
sports, 17
junior high school
racially and economically diverse, 9
military, 34, 36
13th finance corps, 4
Advanced Individual Training (AIT), 38-39
Air Cav (Cavalry), 48-49, 52
AIT See Advanced Individual Training
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An Khe, 48-49, 51-54
AP Hill (now Fort Walker), 42
Bagram Air Base, 211-14
habeas corpus, 212
basic training, 37
field exercises, 44
finance school at Benjamin Harrison Indiana, 47
finance corps, 46-48
Fort Dix New Jersey, 37
Fort Knox Kentucky, 46-47
Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, 37
Fort Sill Oklahoma, 38
Fort Belvoir Virginia, 41
engineering, 40
infantry, 40
leadership training, 41, 44
Officer Candidate School, 34, 37, 41-42, 45-46
engineering, 40
Qui Nhon, 48-52, 54, 56
Viet Cong, 49, 51-52
volunteering, 34
New Hampshire family vacations, 12
philosophically moderate, 68
Pingry School (private high school), 13
President Kennedy assassination impact, 22
public high schools in Elizabeth, New Jersey
segregated by gender, 10
religion
church youth organization, 18
church-attending family, 5
Robert Morris Grammar School, 8
summer jobs, 20
transitions
from Officer Candidate School to first assignment, 44-45
from Vietnam, 59
transition to clerkship, 65
University of Maryland Law School, 25, 29-30, 58-59, 65
applying, 58
law review, 63-64
editor, 64
Milliman, Mike, 62
Reynolds, Bill, 62
upper-middle-class family, 5
Vietnam War impact, 24
Wesleyan University, 3, 19, 24, 28, 30, 32-33
freshman basketball team, 32
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graduation, 36
youth baseball, 11
Bates, John – Professional
administrative cases, 134
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Director, 139, 160, 216, 234, 236-37, 240-41, 245, 280-282, 288-89
al Qaeda, 165, 169
Arch Coal discovery, 250
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, 111
bombings
embassies in East Africa, 165-66
embassies in Lebanon, 165
case management, 125
caseload, 119-20, 122, 124-25, 129-30, 235, 276
challenges during transition onto the Court, 128
change in docket engendered by change in administration, 258
CIA, 95, 180
complex cases, 149
confirmation hearings, 114-16
court reporter, 122, 191
courtroom deputy, 191
criminal cases
discovery, 280
docket, 129
sentencing, 196
criminal law, 159, 194
D.C. Bar Board of Governors, 98
D.C. Circuit Rules Committee, 89
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), 258
decisions, 143
discovery, 61, 74, 127-28, 169-70, 259, 262, 279
issues, 74, 128, 229, 230-34, 277, 284
East African embassy bombings, 165-666
empathy, 146
executive privilege, 205, 206, 209
False Claims Act, 111
investigatory work, 111
First Amendment expertise, 83
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), 145, 188
Chief Judge (Presiding Judge), 176, 178, 186, 236
administrative responsibilities, 180
Frank Bernstein (law firm), 70
Guantanamo
cases, 145, 163-64, 167, 170, 214, 279
issues, 165
Hezbollah, 165
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important cases that are fairly unique, 151
injunctions, 221, 239, 262-63, 274-75
Iran, 166-67, 234
support of terrorism, 165
trade embargo, 200
January 6 cases (January 6 Capitol cases), 130, 204
detention questions, 276
discovery, 276
judicial philosophy, 142, 146, 158, 178, 189
separation of powers issues, 193
law clerks, 30, 123-25, 155, 191, 216, 250-51, 280
assignments, 134
role, 130, 132-34, 147-48, 194-95
Lebanon embassy bombing, 165
Legal Aid, 60, 63
leave private practice and go into the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 80
Miller and Chevalier, 103, 110-12, 117
Chair Executive Committee, 111
Chair Government Contracts and Litigation, 111-12
NAACP v. The Combined Federal Campaign (case), 93
Ninth Circuit sitting, 253
Office of the Independent Counsel, 98-100, 103, 105, 106-08, 111-12, 114, 117, 127, 246
Deputy, 100
interaction with the Department of Justice, 185
interface CIA, 180
relationships with the media, 102
opinions
approach to writing, 148
drafting, 133
writing process, 149
pandemic, 134, 137
backlog of cases, 131
pleas and sentencings, 130
privilege issues, 231
pro bono work, 63, 72, 112
railroad reorganization case, 73
reliance interest, 261, 264
river erosion case West Virginia, 74
rule of law, 143, 189
salaries of judges, 137
separation of powers, 153, 155-56, 163, 193, 206-07
cases, 159
special master, 249
Steptoe and Johnson, 70, 72-75, 77
employment discrimination cases, 71, 81
Sudan and Osama bin Laden, 165
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teaching
Georgetown, 176, 189
University of Arizona Schools of Law, 189
thoughts on federal judge appointment process, 246
thoughts on private practice, 69
transition from becoming a member of the bar to a sitting judge on the Court, 117
transition out of the position in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 96
U.S. Attorney’s Office, 60-62, 68, 74, 81-84, 87, 93-94, 96-99, 105- 07, 110, 112, 117-19 152,
236, 277
administrative cases, 132
Civil Division Chief, 80, 82
class action cases, 83
employment discrimination class actions, 89
Division Head, 90
False Claims Act cases, 84
First Amendment work, 83
jury trials, 85
U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
lack of formal training coming onto Court, 119
personal relationships between judges, 135, 137
U.S. Judicial Conference
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules Chair, 255, 281
Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, 159-60, 162
cameras in the courtroom, 160
Standing Committee Chair, 285-86
Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, 112
West Virginia depositions, 75
Bates, Kelly (daughter)), 76
Bates, Lauren (daughter), 75, 77
Bates, Pat (sister-in-law), 5
Bates, Richard Doane Junior (brother), 2-4
Cornell, Columbia, Professor at Georgetown, 4
Bates, Richard Doane Senior (father), 2-4
Singer Manufacturing, 3
World War II, 7
Bates, Ruth Ann (sister in law), 4
Bates, Sarah Deacon (mother), 2
Bradford College, 3
Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, 2
Bates, Susannah (sister), 3
Wheaton College in Massachusetts, 4
Baueris, David, 40
Bazelon, David, 88
Berenson, Brad, 114
Biden, Joe, 205
administration, 270
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Bivens (case), 81, 85
Boasberg, James, 135
Boies, David, 95, 263
Boumediene v. Bush, (case), 211-12
Bradley, Tim, 122-23
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, 197, 200, 202-03
Briggs, Tupper, 57
Bryant, Bill, 87, 94
Buell, Richard, 29
Bugliari, Miller, 15
Bush, George W., 174
Bush, Graham, 59, 65
Zuckerman Spaeder, 59
CACM See Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management
CCNV See Community for Creative Non-Violence
Chamblee, Sandy, 72
Chertoff,, Mike, 101
Christian Knights of KKK, Inc. v. District of Columbia (case), 97
Church Committee activities, 172
CIA, 95, 176
Clark v. Community for Nonviolence (case), 86
Claybrook, Joan, 111
Clement, Paul, 140, 153
Clinton, Hillary, 104, 115, 246
Colloton, Steve, 103
Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives v. McGahn (case),
206, 209-10
Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives v. Miers, 206, 209-10
Community for Creative Non-Violence, 86, 93
Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 260-61, 263-64, 266
COVID, 77, 79, 142, 151, 160, 176, 189, 277, 280, 286
January 6 cases, 277
Cummins, Elijah, 64
D’Amato, Al, 101
DACA See Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Declaratory Judgment Act, 208
Department of Homeland Security, 259-60
domestic terrorism, 172
Duff, Jim, 235, 245
Edwards, Harry, 86, 88, 90
Edwards, John, 115
emergency rules, 286
Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 266-68
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ERISA. See Employee Retirement Income Security Act
FACA See Federal Advisory Commttee Act
fair balance challenge, 272
False Claims Act, 84, 92
FBI, 169
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 266, 271, 273-75
Federal Communications Commission, 140
Federal Public Defenders, 243, 277
Federal Trade Commission v. Arch Coal, Inc. (case), 248
special master, 248
Fifteenth Amendment, 218-19, 223
First Amendment, 62, 83, 85, 87, 92, 96-97, 274
FISC See Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court
Fitzgerald, Jim, 57
Floyd case See State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin
FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, 258
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 170, 172, 174, 176
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, 170-71, 174, 176-77, 179, 183-84, 188
forum shopping, 184
limited amicus participation, 185
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 163, 165, 167
Foster, Vince, 102
See also Whitewater
Fourteenth Amendment, 218-19, 223
Fourth Amendment, 181
Fried, Charles, 87
Friedman, Paul, 135
Friendly, Henry, 66
GAO. See Government Accountability Office
Garland, Merrick, 88
George W. Bush administration, 113
Gesell, Gerhard, 94, 126, 135, 145, 147, 191
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 88-89, 217, 222-23, 227
Goldwater v. Carter (case), 157-58
Gonzales, Alberto, 113
Gorelick, Jamie, 99
Gorsuch, Neil, 289
Green, Joyce Hens, 93-94, 164
Green, Nathanael, 29
Guantanamo, 30, 145, 166, 170, 212, 214, 278-79
habeas corpus, 30, 162-63, 167, 211
Hanly, John, 16
Henderson v. Lujan (case), 96-97
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Hodgson, Bill, 62, 73
Hodgson, Morgan, 73
Hogan Lovells, 67
Hogan, Tom, 94, 119, 135, 165, 235
Holder, Eric, 99, 106, 140, 152
Huvelle, Ellen, 136
Ikuta, Sandra, 255
Jackson, Amy Berman, 248
Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 206, 210
January 6 cases, 130, 204, 276, 278, 280
January 6 committee, 205
Johnson, Frank, 66
Johnson, Norma, 94
Judicial Conference of the United States, 159-60, 162, 171, 235-38, 241, 253, 281-83, 285-89
justiciability, 152, 156-57, 269, 272
Kaufman, Frank, 67
Kavanaugh, Brett, 99, 103, 107, 113, 226, 289
Kennedy, Robert (Bobby), 33
assassination, 34
Kenny, Jack, 67
King, Martin Luther
assassination, 33-34
Ku Klux Klan, 97
Kollar-Kotelly, Colleen, 226
Kris, David, 186
Kucinich v. Bush (case), 155-56
Kucinich, Dennis, 156
Lamberth, Royce, 90, 92, 95, 119, 135, 191
LDF See NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Lewinsky, Monica, 103, 107
Liebman, Ron, 60
Loeser, David (brother in law), 4
Mackall, Laidler, 71
Mandel, Marvin, 60, 63, 80
McGahn (case) See Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives v.
McGahn
McGovern, George, 224
Mecham, Ralph, 235
Miers, Harriet, 206
Miers (case) See Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. Miers
Mikva, Abner, 88, 90
Milliman, Mike, 61-62
Monaco, Lisa, 186
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Moss, Randy, 136
Mueller, Bob, 102
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 93, 271
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund v. Devine, 93
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. v. Trump, 271
Nader, Ralph, 111
Nixon, Richard, 224
Northwest Austin Municipal Util. v. Holder (case), 219-20, 222, 226
Oberdorfer, Louis, 97
OCS See Bates, John – Personal Officer Candidate School
Olson, Ted, 262
Omar Abu Ali v. Ashcroft (case), 162-63, 167
Parsi et al v. Hassan (case), 229, 232-33
Phillips, Carter, 140, 153
Powers, Tom, 73
Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, 270
Quinn See United States v. Quinn
Quint, Peter, 62
racial discrimination, 84, 218, 220, 228
Raines v. Byrd (case), 154, 156-57, 207
Randall, Bob, 72
Reagan, Ronald, 90
Rehnquist, William, 159
reliance, 265
Reno, Janet, 99-100
Reynolds, Bill, 62
Roberts, John, 97, 159, 170-71, 216-17, 224, 234, 244, 253, 264
Robertson, Jim, 136
Rose Law Firm, 102, 104
Rosenstein, Rod, 80, 103
Ross v. Williams (case), 255
Ruff, Chuck, 86, 103
Rules Enabling Acts, 282
Rules of Procedure, 281
Russell, Nelle, 123
Sachs, Steve, 62-63
Scalia, Antonin, 88, 261
Schiff, Adam, 188
SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility). 173
Shelby Count v. Holder (case), 216-19, 224-29, 236, 259, 265
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Sherman, Wig, 56
Silberman, Laurence (Larry), 138
Skolnick, Barney, 60
Smith, Milan, 255
Snowden, Edward, 186-87
Sotomayor, Sonia, 162
South Carolina v. United States (case), 225-28
St. Eve, Amy, 108
Standing Committee, 66, 281, 283, 285-88
standing
issues, 151, 260, 272
law, 104, 151-58, 207, 210, 260, 267, 269, 272-73, 282
personal injury v. institutional trauma, 155
Starr, Ken, 88, 97-100, 102, 104, 106-07
State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin (case), 91, 93, 98, 106, 270, 277, 285
State of New York v. Department of Labor (case), 266-68
standing law issues, 267
Stephanopoulos, George, 100
Stephens, Jay, 97-98
Supreme Court, 103, 105, 146-47, 152-54, 156-57, 164, 168, 172, 176, 182, 192, 194, 205, 207,
214, 216, 224-25, 247, 259, 261-66, 283, 287
Combined Federal Campaign (case), 93
Community for Creative Non-Violence (case), 86-87
DACA, 264
doctrine of equal sovereignty of the states, 223
First Amendment cases, 85-86
habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo detainees, 211
justices, 88-89, 263, 289
Kavanaugh, Brett, 107
Shelby County (case), 227-28, 265
Voting Rights Act, 217-22
Suspension Clause, 213
Temporary Restraining Order, 93
terrorism, 165, 166-67, 169
Thomas, Clarence, 88
Thomsen, Roszel, 65-68, 70
approach to opinion writing, 65
assignments, 67
chair of the Standing Committee on Rules, 66
Railroad Reorganization Court, 66
Tort Claims Act, 85
TRO. See Temporarary Restraining Order
Trump administration, 205, 208, 258-59, 264, 266, 269, 275
memorandum, 270
Trustees of Princeton University et al v. United States of America al (case), 258
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Tuohey, Mark, 98-100
United States Court Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 82, 92-93, 95, 97-98, 105, 121, 146-47, 152-
53, 164, 170, 194, 198, 208, 212, 214, 221, 225, 233, 256-57, 262, 264, 272
Brady issues, 200
Community for Creative Non-Violence, 86-87
ideological divisions, 90
judges, 88-90, 121, 210
Rules Committee, 89
United States Court Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 103, 105
United States Court Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 253
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 261
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 252-57, 259, 261
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 95, 162, 167, 259, 262
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 108
United States Department of Justice, 91, 93, 98, 106, 277, 285
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 259, 262
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 169
United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 259, 261
United States v. Aetna (case), 247-48, 250-51
United States v. Quinn, 200, 202, 204
United States v. Randall (case), 72-73
Verrilli, Don, 140, 152
Vietnam, 24, 37, 40, 47-48, 50, 54-56
Voting Rights Act, 217-23, 228, 259
coverage formula, 217-24
Wald, Pat, 88, 90
Walker v. Cheney (case), 140, 153, 155, 207
War on Terror, 166
Washington Post. 276
Wayne, Brian, 122-23\
Westmoreland v. CBS Inc. (case), 95
Westmoreland, William, 95
Whitewater, 101, 106, 246
investigation, 98
Williams and Connolly, 102-03
Williams, Stephen, 221
Wisdom, John Minor, 66
Woodward, Bob, 102
Wright, Skelly, 87-88
Younger v. Harris (case), 64