Stephen Victor Wilson

Stephen Victor Wilson (born March 26, 1941) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Education and career[]

Wilson has claimed that he was born in New York City, New York, although his parents were in Connecticut when he was born. Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lehigh University in 1963. He received a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1967. He received a Master of Laws from George Washington University Law School in 1973. He was a trial attorney of the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1968 to 1971. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of Los Angeles, California from 1971 to 1977. He was the Chief of the Fraud and Special Prosecutions Section from 1973 to 1977. He was in private practice of law in Beverly Hills, California from 1977 to 1985. He was an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School from 1975 to 1979. He was the Chairman of the Federal Indigent Defense Panel Committee of the District Court in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1980. He was an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law in 1984.^[1]

Federal judicial service[]

Wilson was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1985, to the United States District Court for the Central District of California, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 16, 1985, and received his commission on October 17, 1985.^[1]

Notable cases[]

Wilson is considered a tough-minded conservative, however, he is described as "never making a decision with fear of favor."^{[citation needed]}

In the judicial website Robing Room, which evaluates and entertains comments about federal judges, Wilson is rated as the tenth worst federal district judge in the United States, based on more than 70 comments about him, and is rated at 2.9 out of 10.

Wilson often has been criticized by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as being "intemperate," as in Kennedy v. City of Los Angeles," 901 F.2d 702 (9th Cir. 1989), with the Appeals Court commenting that "the judge must always remain fair and impartial."'

In 1988, Wilson threw out provisions of a 1952 immigration law that the government used to deport aliens who advocate world communism. ^[2]

References[]

Sources[]

• Stephen Victor Wilson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.