Clay Daniel Land (born March 24, 1960) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court of the United States District for the Central District of Georgia.
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Education and legal practice
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Land received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1982 and Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia Law School in 1985. He was in private practice in Columbus, Georgia, from 1985 to 2001.
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Political career
Land served as a member of the Columbus City Council from 1993 to 1994. In 1994 he was elected to the Senate of the State of Georgia as a Republican. He served three terms (6 years) representing District 16, the same seat previously held by his cousin Ted. J. Land from 1979 - 1991.
District court service
On September 21, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated the Land to sit in the United States District Court for the Central District in Georgia vacated by J. Robert Elliot. Land was confirmed by the United States Senate on 13 December 2001, and received his commission on 21 December 2001. He has served as Chief Justice since October 1, 2014.
Notable case
The ground became the spotlight in late 2009 when he tried the case of Rhodes v. Macdonald , in which Army physician Connie Rhodes sought to secure an arrest warrant against him deployed to Iraq on the grounds that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was ineligible to serve as President. The ground rejects the argument frivolously. Within hours of Land's decision, the doctor's lawyer, Orly Taitz, told the Talking Points Memo news website that he felt Land's refusal to hear his case was an act of treason. Two days later, he filed a motion to defend the deployment of Rhodes while awaiting rehearing of the dismissal orders. He repeated his treason charges against Land and made some other unforgiving statements, including claims that Land helped and abetted as Obama's "dictatorship" aspiration. The land refused the motion was reckless and ordered it to show the reason why he should not be fined $ 10,000 due to misuse of the judicial process.
After Rhodes asked Taitz to be dismissed as his lawyer, on October 13, 2009, Hakim Land issued a 40-page ruling that lifted Taitz's sanctions and imposed a $ 20,000 monetary penalty under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. After knowing Land's decision, Taitz told the Memo Talking Points that he would not pay his fine, calling it "intimidation".
References
Source
- FJC Bio
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