Edward DuMont, Out Gay Appeals Court Nominee, Asks Obama to Withdraw His Nomination

Dan82 · Nov 13, 2011

http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/11/edward-dumont-out-gay-appeals.html

After waiting more than 18 months without even receiving a committee hearing on his nomination, Edward DuMont, a partner at the Wilmer Hale law firm, has asked President Barack Obama to withdraw his nomination to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

dumont.jpgAs reported at Patently-O -- and earlier at law.com -- DuMont submitted a letter to the president on Nov. 4 asking that his nomination be withdrawn.

DuMont came to the nomination to the specialty court, which primarily hears appeals on patent matters and cases from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, with stellar qualifications and was deemed "unanimously well qualified" by the American Bar Association. A former law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, DuMont would have been the first out gay appellate judge in the country...

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Edward DuMont, Out Gay Appeals Court Nominee, Asks Obama to Withdraw His Nomination

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