1. Kent Joseph Dawson was born on June 13,1944 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
14 Facts About Kent Dawson
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Kent Dawson received his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah Law School in 1971, and served as a law clerk for James Guinan, a Nevada state court judge.
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Kent Dawson served as the assistant city attorney for Henderson, Nevada from 1972 to 1973 and then as city attorney from 1973 to 1979.
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Kent Dawson served as general counsel of the Public Improvement Trust in Henderson from 1973 to 1995.
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Kent Dawson served as city manager of Henderson in 1977.
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Kent Dawson was in private practice in Las Vegas from 1979 to 1995.
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Kent Dawson served as a judge pro tem of the Henderson Municipal Court from 1993 to 1995.
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Kent Dawson served as a justice of the peace of the Henderson Justice Court from 1995 to 2000.
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Kent Dawson was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24,2000, and receiving his commission on May 31,2000.
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In 2005, Schiff was convicted of various criminal tax charges for which Kent Dawson sentenced Schiff, in February 2006, to over thirteen years in prison.
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Judge Kent Dawson rejected one of Schiff's common tax protester arguments that no law imposes a liability on an individual for income taxes, instructing the jury that sections 1,61,62 and 6012 of the Internal Revenue Code "working together, make an individual liable for income taxes".
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Kent Dawson sentenced Schiff to thirteen years in prison, and Kent Dawson's sentence imposed was unanimously upheld on appeal by the three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with the exception of a contempt conviction, which was remanded for resentencing.
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In late 2011, Judge Kent Dawson granted court orders for the seizure and transfer of hundreds of domain names belonging to websites alleged by luxury goods company Chanel to be selling counterfeit merchandise.
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Kent Dawson required that "all social media websites" and "all Internet search engines" remove these domain names from any search results.