1. Karin Immergut concurrently serves as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2024.
23 Facts About Karin Immergut
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Karin Immergut's father was an Austrian chemist and her mother a Swedish mathematician.
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Karin Immergut's parents married in Sweden and then immigrated to the United States where Karin was born.
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From 1982 to 1984, Karin Immergut was a special assistant at the New York City Departments of Juvenile Justice and Corrections.
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Karin Immergut then attended the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was managing editor of the Boalt Hall Journal of Industrial Relations.
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Karin Immergut served for five years as a deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon, where she primarily prosecuted white collar crimes.
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In 1998, Karin Immergut was a Multnomah County deputy district attorney when she went to work for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating then-President Bill Clinton.
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Karin Immergut personally questioned Monica Lewinsky in an August 6,1998, deposition.
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Karin Immergut was sworn in as interim United States attorney on October 3,2003, and the United States Senate confirmed her nomination on that same date.
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Karin Immergut was appointed by President George W Bush to the position.
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Karin Immergut managed a staff of approximately 107 people, including 51 assistant US attorneys, who handled civil litigation on behalf of the United States and criminal investigations and prosecutions involving violations of federal law such as white collar crime, narcotics trafficking, violent crime, money laundering and cybercrime.
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In January 2008, Karin Immergut applied to succeed Judge Garr King on the United States District Court for Oregon.
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Karin Immergut was initially considered the leading candidate for the post as the preferred choice of US Senator Gordon H Smith.
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Karin Immergut re-registered as a Republican at the beginning of Bush's first term as President, in the same month that she went to work for Mosman.
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Karin Immergut resigned from the office in July 2009 in order to be appointed as Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge.
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On June 7,2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Karin Immergut to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
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Karin Immergut's nomination was sent to the Senate later that day.
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Karin Immergut received her judicial commission on August 5,2019.
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On June 17,2021, Karin Immergut granted a preliminary injunction to Olivia Moultrie, ruling that the National Women's Soccer League could not enforce its rule requiring players to be at least 18 years old before signing a professional contract.
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On March 10,2023, Karin Immergut ruled that Salem police officer Robert Johnston had no way of knowing he violated Eleaqia McCrae's rights when he shot her with rubber bullets at a protest in 2020, a legal principle known as qualified immunity.
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Karin Immergut overturned a jury's unanimous verdict that Johnston violated McCrae's Fourth Amendment right not to be subjected to excessive force and erased the jury's decision to award McCrae $250,000 for economic loss and $800,000 in other damages.
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On September 16,2024, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals found Karin Immergut was wrong to throw out the jury's award and that she should not have granted the officer immunity.
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In 1996 Immergut moved to Portland, Oregon, where she married James T McDermott and was hired by Multnomah County.