Carl E Person was born on July 20,1936 and is an American attorney and politician.
19 Facts About Carl Person
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Carl Person founded the Paralegal Institute in the early 1970s and played a pivotal role in creating the paralegal field.
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Carl Person was a candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, was the Reform Party nominee for Mayor of New York City in 2013, was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General in 2010 and was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General again in 2014.
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Carl Person dropped out of Northport High School after his sophomore year, and joined the US Army for a 3-year enlistment.
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Carl Person's service included two years on Okinawa as a ship to shore high speed radio operator, to send and receive Morse code.
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In 1968, Carl Person started his own law practice, and has been an individual practitioner ever since.
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In 1972 Carl Person founded the Paralegal Institute and was instrumental in creating the paralegal field.
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In 1970, Carl Person commenced his litigation practice by filing an antitrust action on behalf of a group of National Auto Brokers Corp.
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Carl Person spent more than 20 years in the practice of intellectual property law.
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Thirty years after the 1962 doo-wop hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" was at the top of the charts, Carl Person recaptured the song's copyright for members of the group The Teenagers in a landmark case.
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Carl Person represented playwright Mark Dunn in a case against Paramount Pictures alleging that The Truman Show was essentially similar to Frank's Life, which appeared in a New York theatre several years before.
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Carl Person obtained a reversal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US Supreme Court upheld this victory when it denied certiorari.
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Carl Person has functioned as a private attorney general in several cases, enforcing civil rights and antitrust laws on behalf of individuals and small businesses.
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Carl Person was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General in 2010.
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Carl Person received 36,488 official votes and finished third out of four candidates on the ballot in that race.
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Carl Person was one of several candidates seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination for the 2012 presidential election.
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Carl Person was the Reform Party nominee for Mayor of New York City in the 2013 election.
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Carl Person came twelfth out of fifteen candidates with 306 votes.
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Carl Person was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General in the 2014 election.