Walter E. Dellinger III
Walter Dellinger | |
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| Solicitor General of the United States | |
Acting | |
| In office July 1, 1996 – November 13, 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Drew Days |
| Succeeded by | Seth P. Waxman |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for Legal Counsel | |
| In office October 1993 – June 30, 1996 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Timothy Flanigan |
| Succeeded by | Christopher H. Schroeder (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Walter Estes Dellinger III May 15, 1941 Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Children | Hampton Dellinger (son) |
| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Walter Estes Dellinger III (born May 15, 1941) is an American attorney and legal scholar who is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He also leads the appellate practice at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. and the Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic.
Early life and education[]
Dellinger was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He clerked for Justice Hugo Black of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Career[]
He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996–1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. He has also appeared as a commentator on This Week, the ABC News Sunday morning program hosted by George Stephanopoulos.
On March 18, 2008, he unsuccessfully represented the District of Columbia before the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. The District argued that its Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 should not be restricted by the Second Amendment.[1] The ban was overturned by the Supreme Court.
In February 2008, Dellinger represented ExxonMobil in the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, which addressed whether certain punitive damages are available under federal maritime law. This case relates to the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989.
On March 5, 2010, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dellinger defending Karl Thompson.[2]
In 2010, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue inducted Dellinger into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, calling him "North Carolina’s best friend, legally, that we’ve ever had."[3]
In early 2012, with Dellinger representing the defendant in United States v. Antoine Jones, the US Supreme Court overruled the warrantless government use of a GPS device on Jones' Jeep Grand Cherokee. Dellinger said the decision in the drug case was "a signal event in Fourth Amendment history".[4]
Personal life[]
He is the father of lawyer and political candidate Hampton Dellinger.
References[]
- ^ Gary Emerling (2008-01-05). "Fenty arms self with new lawyer to defend gun ban". Washington Times.
- ^ Walter Dellinger (2010-03-05). "A shameful attack on the U.S. legal system". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2010-03-09.
- ^ News & Observer: Perdue recognizes Dellinger
- ^ Bravin, Jess, "Justices Rein In Police on GPS Trackers", The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
External links[]
- Duke Law School biography
- Office of the Solicitor General
- Harvard Law School Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- 1941 births
- Clinton administration personnel
- Duke University School of Law faculty
- Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Lawyers from Charlotte, North Carolina
- Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
- Living people
- Harvard Law School faculty
- United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Office of Legal Counsel
- United States Solicitors General
- Yale Law School alumni