1. Jamal Norman Whitehead was born on 1979 and is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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Jamal Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Washington in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from the Seattle University School of Law in 2007.
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From 2007 to 2010, Jamal Whitehead worked as an attorney at Garvey Schubert Barer in Seattle.
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Jamal Whitehead is a past president of the Loren Miller Bar Association, Washington's oldest and largest minority bar.
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In 2018, Jamal Whitehead served as co-counsel for a disabled car dealership employee after he was fired by Mercedes-Benz of Seattle when he began using a prosthetic voice box to speak.
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Jamal Whitehead tried the case to verdict before a federal jury, which returned a $5 million verdict in his client's favor.
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The car dealership appealed the verdict, and Jamal Whitehead successfully argued the case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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In 2021, Jamal Whitehead represented private plaintiffs when they sued a private prison, GEO Group, for paying incarcerated ICE detainees $1 a day in its work program.
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On July 13,2022, President Joe Biden nominated Jamal Whitehead to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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Jamal Whitehead received his judicial commission on March 14,2023.
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On February 25,2025, Jamal Whitehead issued a preliminary injunction against Executive Order 14163, which would indefinitely suspend the US Refugee Admissions Program.
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In doing so, Jamal Whitehead contended that the order stood in violation of both the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Administrative Procedure Act, which respectively laid out the refugee admissions process and required a period of public comment to be issued.