1. Kevin Thomas Duffy was an American lawyer and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
20 Facts About Kevin Duffy
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Kevin Duffy clerked for Judge J Edward Lumbard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Kevin Duffy was later appointed New York regional administrator of the Securities and Exchange Commission office.
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Kevin Duffy is viewed by many as having been the first proponent within the Commission of what eventually became Securities Investor Protection Corporation or SIPC.
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On September 25,1972, Kevin Duffy was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge Irving Ben Cooper.
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Kevin Duffy was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 12,1972, and received his commission on October 17,1972.
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Kevin Duffy retired from active service on September 30,2016.
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In 1973, as a new member of the Southern District, Duffy was assigned one of the most complicated and difficult organized crime narcotics cases tried in Manhattan federal court, United States v Tramunti.
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In 1977, Kevin Duffy threatened New York Governor Hugh Carey with contempt of court for not imposing bridge tolls as Kevin Duffy had required him to under the Clean Air Act of 1963.
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In 1983, Kevin Duffy presided over one of the trials resulting from the Brink's robbery by the Black Liberation Army.
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In 1985, Kevin Duffy began a complicated multi-defendant trial involving the then-alleged leader and other members of the Gambino organized crime family.
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Kevin Duffy presided over the trial and conviction of the four principal perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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Kevin Duffy presided over the trial of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the Bojinka plot, to hijack planes bound for the west coast of the United States and fly them into the Pacific Ocean on a coordinated schedule.
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Kevin Duffy presided over the copyright case Grand Upright Music, Ltd.
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Kevin Duffy ruled on post-trial motions of the defendant Wadih El-Hage who had been convicted of conspiracy to kill Americans.
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Kevin Duffy sat by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Kevin Duffy has authored multiple majority published opinions for that court.
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Kevin Duffy served as an adjunct professor for several different universities, including Brooklyn Law School, York University Law School, Pace University School of Law, and Fordham University School of Law.
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Kevin Duffy lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and Southampton, New York at the time of his death.
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Kevin Duffy died from complications of COVID-19 at Greenwich Hospital on April 1,2020, aged 87.