Walter Dellinger
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Solicitor General of the United States Acting |
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In office July 1, 1996 – November 13, 1997 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Drew Days |
| Succeeded by | Seth P. Waxman |
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Walter Estes Dellinger III May 15, 1941 Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Walter Estes Dellinger III (born May 15, 1941) is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic. He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. He has also appeared as a commentator on This Week, the ABC News Sunday morning program hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Dellinger is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale Law School.
Dellinger was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the father of lawyer and political candidate Hampton Dellinger. Walter Dellinger received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina. In 1966, he graduated from Yale Law School, and then clerked for Justice Hugo Black of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1968 Term.
On March 18, 2008, he unsuccessfully represented the District of Columbia before the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. The District argued that its Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 should not be restricted by the Second Amendment. The ban was overturned by the Supreme Court.
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