1. Sam Sparks was born on 1939 and is a senior United States district judge of the Austin Division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
12 Facts About Sam Sparks
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Sam Sparks earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law two years later.
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Sam Sparks was confirmed by the Senate on November 21,1991, and received his commission on November 25,1991.
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Sam Sparks ruled that Rove's company could recoup roughly $180,000 in bills from the Thornburgh campaign.
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In 1994 Sparks ruled in favor of Steve Jackson Games against the United States Secret Service.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation helped with the lawsuit, and Sam Sparks ruled that the Secret Service had acted in a too heavy-handed manner.
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In 1998 Sam Sparks issued stays of execution for Joseph Stanley Faulder and Danny Lee Barber, holding that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles failed to provide due process in considering their requests for clemency.
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Sam Sparks received the Trial Judge of the Year from the Texas Chapter of the Board of Trial Advocates in 2005.
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In 2007, Justice Sparks ruled in a landmark settlement that greatly improved conditions for immigrant children and their families who were being held in the T Don Hutto Residential Center operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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In 2009, Sparks heard Fisher v University of Texas, a case challenging the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Sam Sparks was married to Arden Reed Sparks, until she died in 1990.
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Sam Sparks married his second wife, Melinda Echols, formerly of Fort Worth, in 1995.