1. Dan Aaron Polster was born on December 6,1951 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
16 Facts About Dan Polster
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In December 2017, a federal judicial panel selected Dan Polster to preside over more than 3,000 consolidated prescription opioid-related lawsuits in multidistrict litigation known as the National Prescription Opiate Litigation.
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Dan Polster was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1982, and an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Ohio from 1982 to 1998.
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On July 31,1997, Dan Polster was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by David Dudley Dowd Jr.
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Dan Polster was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 31,1998, and received his commission on August 3,1998.
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Dan Polster helped to mediate a lawsuit over limits on protests at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Dan Polster mediated a settlement between the city of Cleveland and the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was killed by a white police officer in 2014.
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In February 2017, Dan Polster said that comments made by Donald Trump criticizing federal judges called the president's legitimacy into question.
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Dan Polster mediated settlements in 700 cases involving medical contract dye.
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Dan Polster rejected arguments from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to limit the use of ballot drop boxes in the 2020 election.
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The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit granted an injunction against Dan Polster's ruling, leaving the ultimate decision to be made after election day.
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In December 2017, a federal judicial panel selected Dan Polster to preside over more than 3,000 consolidated prescription opioid-related lawsuits in multidistrict litigation known as the National Prescription Opiate Litigation.
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In June 2019, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Dan Polster's blocking of the release of court records in opioid cases was inappropriate.
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Dan Polster has a history of encouraging parties to settle their cases outside of court.
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Dan Polster initially said he would automatically disqualify any potential jurors who were not vaccinated against COVID-19.
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The jury only decided liability, and now Dan Polster will decide how much the companies will have to pay in damages.