Amit Mehta
Amit Priyavadan Mehta is an American lawyer who has served as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2014. In 2021, Mehta became a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Some of the key events about Amit Mehta
- 1999Graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law
- 2002Joined the law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP as an associate
- 2007Became a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
- 2014Nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a United States District Judge
- 2014Confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- 2017Presided over a high-profile case involving the merger of AT&T and Time Warner
- 2019Ruled in favor of the House Oversight Committee's subpoena for President Trump's financial records
- 2020Issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration's ban on TikTok downloads in the U.S.
- 2021Presided over cases related to the January 6 Capitol attack
- 2022Ruled that former President Trump could be held civilly liable for the January 6 Capitol attack
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