Myron Herbert Thompson

Myron Herbert Thompson (born January 7, 1947) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

For the Canadian politician, see Myron Thompson.
Myron Herbert Thompson
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
Assumed office
August 22, 2013
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
In office
1991–1998
Preceded byTruman McGill Hobbs
Succeeded byWilliam Harold Albritton III
Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
In office
September 29, 1980 – August 22, 2013
Appointed byJimmy Carter
Preceded byFrank Minis Johnson
Succeeded byEmily Coody Marks
Personal details
Born
Myron Herbert Thompson

(1947-01-07) January 7, 1947
Tuskegee, Alabama
EducationYale College (B.A.)
Yale Law School (J.D.)

Education and career

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Thompson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1972. He was an Assistant Attorney General of Alabama from 1972 to 1974, and was then in private practice in Dothan, Alabama until 1980.

Federal judicial service

On September 17, 1980, Thompson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama vacated by Judge Frank Minis Johnson. Thompson was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1980, and received his commission on September 29, 1980. He served as Chief Judge from 1991 to 1998. He took senior status on August 22, 2013.[1]

Notable case

On October 29, 2019, Judge Thompson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Human Life Protection Act from taking effect in Alabama as prescribed on November 15, 2019. The Alabama law "imposes criminal liability on abortion providers for nearly all abortions, completed or attempted, regardless of fetal viability. In essence," the Court said, "the Act imposes a near-total ban on abortion." Judge Thompson concluded, “The court is persuaded that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in showing that the Act violates an individual’s constitutional right to obtain a pre-viability abortion, and thus that it violates her constitutional rights.” https://www.scribd.com/document/432554248/Myron-Thompson-Order#from_embed In a 2014 ruling, Thompson ruled an Alabama law regulating abortion unconstitutional, in Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc., v. Strange (also known as Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc., v. Bentley), citing the undue burden standard.[2][3]

gollark: The last one was at someone's house, but the VR thing was some sort of "lab" environment with lots of random things in it, I don't remember much.
gollark: Google Cardboard (obviously not very high quality but at least vaguely cool), some racing game in a science museum some years back when it was still newer and shinier, and I think last year some kind of VR "lab" thing on some fancier VR setup.
gollark: Mostly various tech demos, honestly?
gollark: Personally, I still prefer flatscreen interfaces to VR.
gollark: Hmm, apparently there's competition now in extremely fast `grep` implementations.

References
  1. Montgomery Advertiser, "Federal judge Myron Thompson moves to senior status; Obama to appoint successor," August 24, 2013 Archived August 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  2. CNN.com: Federal judge: Abortion like right to bear arms
  3. Opinion, from U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Sources
Legal offices
Preceded by
Frank Minis Johnson		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
1980–2013		 Succeeded by
Emily Coody Marks
Preceded by
Truman McGill Hobbs		 Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
1991–1998		 Succeeded by
William Harold Albritton III
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