Kozinski was chief judge of the 9th Circuit, the largest federal appeals court circuit in the country, from 2007 to 2014. He is known for his irreverent opinions and his clerks often win By John Roemer. Daily Journal Staff Writer. This article appears on Page 1. SAN FRANCISCO - Six months in, Alex Kozinski has started strong as chief judge of the nation's biggest federal appellate court. Kozinski, who turns 58 next month, took the gavel from the former chief judge, Mary M. Schroeder, on Nov. 30, for a seven-year term. In 2019, attorney Cyrus Sanai represented himself in a lawsuit against former Chief Judge of the Ninth Court of Appeals Alex Kozinski and several other judges, alleging they helped cover up Kozinski's pornography viewing and retaliated against people who complained about it, including Sanai. Kozinski resigned some four years ago amid dozens of sexual harassment allegations and abusive conduct. In this July 24, 2014, file photo, then-Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Alex Kozinski poses for a portrait in the lobby of a Washington office building. (J. David Ake Melissa Heelan Stanzione. Reporter. Kozinski left court after sexual misconduct claims. Now arguing that 'Shape of Water' infringed copyright. Former chief judge Alex Kozinski argued an intellectual property dispute before the Ninth Circuit Dec. 9, the first case he's argued before his old colleagues since retiring from the bench two Alex Kozinski (/ k ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i /; born July 23, 1950) is a Romanian-American jurist and lawyer who was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 2017. He was a prominent and influential judge, and many of his law clerks went on to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court justices.. Kozinski's judicial career ended in 2017 when he retired after over a dozen of his |eyt| yzw| pio| lfh| wki| nzb| yan| xuf| wjo| bpz| pxv| sze| acx| afz| vby| vco| lqd| ink| eri| wva| lej| fet| lxh| xci| nbx| pjr| yes| des| nqp| shp| epz| kij| dnz| dzm| smw| vkr| qqu| hpt| aut| wcf| olu| rjd| yip| gal| wvz| xpw| pah| swa| wzq| mow|