Richard Lowell Nygaard

Richard Lowell Nygaard (born July 9, 1940) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Richard Nygaard
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Assumed office
July 9, 2005
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In office
October 17, 1988 – July 9, 2005
Appointed byRonald Reagan
Preceded byJoseph F. Weis Jr.
Succeeded byThomas Hardiman
Personal details
Born
Richard Lowell Nygaard

(1940-07-09) July 9, 1940
Thief River Falls, Minnesota
EducationUniversity of Southern California (BS)
University of Michigan Law School (JD)

Education and career

Nygaard was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, on July 9, 1940.[1] He received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from the University of Southern California in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1971. He was a Petty Officer Second Class in the United States Naval Reserve from 1958 to 1964. He was in private practice in North East, Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1980. He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas, Sixth District of Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1988.[2]

Federal judicial service

Nygaard was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on May 25, 1988, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated when Judge Joseph F. Weis Jr. assumed senior status. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 14, 1988, and received his commission on October 17, 1988. He assumed senior status on July 9, 2005.[2] In 2017, Judge Nygaard partially dissented when the majority, granted qualified immunity to police officers who prevented bystanders from recording video of them.[3]

gollark: ... I know what it is.
gollark: microG, I mean.
gollark: I got it working without that.
gollark: Compiled it? Why?
gollark: Basically, it uses Bucklescript (OCaml -> JS) and Rollup (JS -> slightly different JS) and getting them to cooperate is horrible, and also everything else is aargh.

References
  1. Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments. 1989. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  2. "Nygaard, Richard Lowell - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  3. Note, Recent Case: Third Circuit Holds Bystanders Have First Amendment Right to Record Police but Grants Qualified Immunity to Officers Involved, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 2049 (2018).

Sources
Legal offices
Preceded by
Joseph F. Weis Jr.		 Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
1988–2005		 Succeeded by
Thomas Hardiman
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