1. Walter Estes Dellinger III was an American attorney and legal scholar who served as the Douglas B Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.
12 Facts About Walter Dellinger
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Walter Dellinger served as Acting United States Solicitor General under the administration of President Bill Clinton, from 1996 to 1997.
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Walter Dellinger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1966.
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Walter Dellinger clerked for Justice Hugo Black of the US Supreme Court.
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In 1969, Dellinger became a professor at Duke University School of Law.
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Walter Dellinger argued nine cases and won five, including a case defending the president's line-item veto and two cases defending laws that barred assisted suicide.
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Walter Dellinger appeared as a commentator on This Week, the ABC News Sunday morning program hosted by George Stephanopoulos.
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In February 2008, Walter Dellinger represented ExxonMobil in the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co.
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On March 5,2010, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Walter Dellinger defending Karl Thompson.
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In early 2012, Dellinger represented the defendant in United States v Antoine Jones, in which the US Supreme Court barred the government's warrantless use of a GPS device on Jones' Jeep Grand Cherokee as part of a drug trafficking investigation.
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Walter Dellinger said the decision in the case was "a signal event in Fourth Amendment history".
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Walter Dellinger died from pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on February 16,2022, at the age of 80.