Joseph Jerome Farris
| Joseph Farris | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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In office September 27, 1979 – March 4, 1995 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Margaret McKeown |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 4, 1930 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Education |
Morehouse College (BS) Clark Atlanta University (MSW) University of Washington, Seattle (JD) |
Joseph Jerome Farris (born March 4, 1930) is a United States federal judge.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Farris received a B.S. from Morehouse College in 1951 and was in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1952 to 1953. He received a M.S.W. from Atlanta University in 1955 and a J.D. from the University of Washington in 1958. He was in private practice in Seattle, Washington from 1958 to 1969. He was a judge on the Washington Court of Appeals in Seattle from 1969 to 1979.
On July 12, 1979, Farris was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1979, and received his commission on September 27, 1979. In Hirabayashi v. United States (1987), Farris sat on the circuit panel that by coram nobis unanimously vacated an exclusion order conviction that had been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States during the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. He assumed senior status on March 4, 1995.
In 1997, Ferris published an article arguing that, while the Ninth Circuit is the circuit most often reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court, this was not due to error or the circuit being "too liberal" but rather that "courts cannot determine right and wrong in an absolute sense because the law is not absolute." Although a Democratic appointee, Farris was described by his colleague Stephen Reinhardt as "extremely conservative on criminal justice issues."
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