29 Facts About Frank Easterbrook

Frank Hoover Easterbrook was born on September 3,1948 and is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as a United States circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985.

Frank Easterbrook was the Seventh Circuit's chief judge from 2006 to 2013.

Frank Easterbrook attended Kenmore West High School in Tonawanda, New York.

Frank Easterbrook then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review along with future judge Douglas H Ginsburg.

Frank Easterbrook graduated in 1973 with a Juris Doctor and membership in the Order of the Coif.

Frank Easterbrook then joined the US Solicitor General's office as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, and was promoted in 1978 to Deputy Solicitor General.

Frank Easterbrook joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1978.

Frank Easterbrook was a principal at the economics consulting firm Compass Lexecon from 1980 until his judicial appointment.

Frank Easterbrook argued 20 cases before the Supreme Court while in the Solicitor General's office and in private practice, including several landmark antitrust cases.

Frank Easterbrook was nominated to the court by Ronald Reagan on August 1,1984, to a new seat created by 98 Stat.

Frank Easterbrook was confirmed by the Senate on April 3,1985, and received his commission the next day.

Frank Easterbrook described a controversy over whether a police officer, or the plaintiff's own bird, had attacked the plaintiff as: "[Plaintiff] says that he was clobbered by a pair of handcuffs; [the officer] maintains that the [plaintiffs]' red macaw drew the blood when it landed on [plaintiff]'s head during the fracas and started pecking".

Course after law school course has changed for the better as Judge Frank Easterbrook's opinions have made their way into the curriculum.

Frank Easterbrook had a reputation for being "hard-nosed and demanding" during oral argument.

Frank Easterbrook's demeanor has won him enemies in the bar.

The evaluation of Frank Easterbrook contained an unusual number of grievances; and the Council did not specify authorship, so the criticism is anonymous.

The report continued to state Frank Easterbrook "has been resoundingly and repeatedly criticized as being extremely rude to attorneys at oral argument" and that "some attorneys" said that due to the judge's demeanor they and their clients did not feel they got a fair hearing.

However, this review by the council was never repeated, lending partial support to the defenders of Frank Easterbrook and Posner that the report was an opportunity for anonymous venting by lawyers who were unhappy with the results of Seventh Circuit decisions, in no small part thanks to the decisions of Reagan appointees Frank Easterbrook and Posner.

Frank Easterbrook served as Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit from 2006 to 2013.

Frank Easterbrook is a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and head of the Judicial Council for the Seventh Circuit.

In June 2009, Easterbrook wrote the decision in NRA v City of Chicago holding that the Second Amendment, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, did not bind state governments.

In May 2023, Frank Easterbrook put a hold on an injunction that had been issued against an Illinois assault weapon and magazine ban by a federal judge in southern Illinois.

On November 1,2019, Frank Easterbrook concurred in the denial of rehearing regarding an Indiana abortion law requiring parental notifications.

On January 23,2020, Frank Easterbrook wrote a decision slamming the Justice Department for arguing that a previous decision by the Seventh Circuit in the same immigration case was wrongly decided and that the Board of Immigration Appeals could ignore the decision.

On June 29,2020, Frank Easterbrook wrote the opinion to reinstate significant voting restrictions in Wisconsin, originally put into place when Republicans controlled all branches of state government early in the previous decade and which US District Judge James Peterson had overturned on constitutional grounds in July 2016.

Frank Easterbrook wrote that even though the voting restrictions are discriminatory, it was purely based upon party affiliation.

Frank Easterbrook's written opinion offered no explanation for the delay in delivering it until preparations for the 2020 national election cycle were just beginning, during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the most closely contested "battleground state" of the 2016 national election cycle.

Frank Easterbrook has written articles on antitrust law and judicial interpretation, including The Limits of Antitrust, 63 Tex.

Frank Easterbrook expressed his opinions about how US states compete with each other in the race to the bottom to win corporations, in " The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance", 95 Va.