1. Amit Priyavadan Mehta was born on 1971 and 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.
21 Facts About Amit Mehta
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In 2021, Mehta became a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Amit Mehta presided over cases related to attack on the United States Capitol on January 6,2021, and the Google antitrust case.
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At the age of one, Amit Mehta moved with his parents, Priyavadan and Ragini Amit Mehta, to the United States.
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Amit Mehta's mother worked as a laboratory technician, while his father worked as an engineer.
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Amit Mehta was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.
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Amit Mehta received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993 from Georgetown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
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From 1993 to 1994, Amit Mehta worked as a paralegal at the law firm Patton Boggs.
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Amit Mehta graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif honors.
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Amit Mehta served as an associate at the law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP from 1999 to 2002, and then as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2007.
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Amit Mehta represented clients in civil and criminal matters before state and federal courts.
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On July 31,2014, President Barack Obama nominated Amit Mehta to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who took senior status on June 3,2014.
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Amit Mehta received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17,2014.
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Amit Mehta received his federal judicial commission on December 19,2014.
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In May 2019, Amit Mehta ruled that accounting firm Mazars had to provide its records of Donald Trump's accounts from before his presidency to the House Oversight Committee in response to their subpoena.
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The goal of the rule was to increase transparency; Amit Mehta ruled that requiring big pharmaceutical companies to disclose prices to consumers in television advertisements was something that could be done only by the Department of Health and Human Services if mandated by Congress.
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In 2020, Mehta became the presiding judge in the United States v Google LLC antitrust case.
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Amit Mehta has charge of the criminal prosecution of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy.
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Amit Mehta is presiding over three civil lawsuits against Trump and multiple associates, in which several members of Congress and two police officers are suing for damages for physical and emotional injuries they allegedly incurred during the attacks.
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Amit Mehta dropped several other co-defendants from the suit, including Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr.
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On January 25,2024, Amit Mehta sentenced former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, to four months in jail for contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena related to the congressional investigation into the January 6,2021, US Capitol attack.