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Jed S. Rakoff is a senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed in 1995. He has overseen numerous prominent financial fraud and securities cases, and is known for scrutinizing SEC consent decrees, notably refusing to approve an SEC-Citigroup settlement in 2011...
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Highly visible district judge praised for independence and securities-law scrutiny; some reversals and activism concerns temper acclaim.
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Kimba Wood is an American federal judge who joined the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1988 and later served as its chief judge. She presided over prominent criminal and civil proceedings, including the 1990 sentencing of financier Michael Milken following his s...
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Prominent Southern District judge with major financial cases; respected but not broadly transformative.
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