1. Jay Scott Bybee was born on October 27,1953 and is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior US circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
13 Facts About Jay Bybee
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Jay Bybee has published numerous articles in law journals and has taught as a senior fellow in constitutional law at William S Boyd School of Law.
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From 1991 to 1999, Bybee taught at the Paul M Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University.
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Jay Bybee has written more than 20 law review articles, notes, comments, and book chapters.
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Jay Bybee served as the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Justice Department from November 2001 to March 2003.
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Together with John Yoo, Jay Bybee drafted the Torture Memos, a set of legal memoranda which gave the CIA legal cover to torture detainees using "enhanced interrogation techniques".
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Jay Bybee was first nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the largest US appellate court, on May 22,2002.
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Jay Bybee was confirmed in 2003, more than a year before news of his role in the torture memos was revealed.
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In July 2019, it was reported that Jay Bybee planned to assume senior status by the end of the year.
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On January 10,2006, in an en banc decision, Judge Bybee wrote the opinion for the majority in the case of Smith v Salish Kootenai College.
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On November 7,2006, Bybee wrote on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel in the case of Lankford v Arave.
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On December 30,2008, Bybee wrote the opinion for the Ninth Circuit in Gonzalez v Duncan.
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Jay Bybee is married to Dianna Greer, a high school teacher.