Talk:James Robertson (judge)

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What makes him notable? --euyyn 18:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Any US federal judge is technically notable (some obviously more than others), but Robertson decided the major case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, making him part of an historic Supreme Court decision. --Dhartung | Talk 00:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * And why exactly is any US federal judge technically notable? I hope you aren't suggesting that being an US federal judge makes anyone automatically notable (in wikipedia's sense, of curse). (Although I don't really know: maybe federal judges in the US appear regularly on TV or something).
 * Concerning this guy, if his notability is mainly due to the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (which I don't know if it can be historic yet, but is certainly notable), it should be mentioned in the introductory paragraph of the article, so readers doesn't make themselves the question about his notability I did. If you agree, I'll add it to the article when I get time. --euyyn 23:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * At WikiProject United States courts and judges, we've decided that all Article III federal judges are inherently notable. They are appointed by the President of the United States, require a majority vote of the United States Senate to take office (absent the use of recess appointments, which are notable for being recess appointments), and serve life terms, usually long outlasting their appointing President. They have the power to deem state laws unconstitutional, and routinely decide multi-million dollar cases from all areas of the law (their courts being of general jurisdiction). bd2412  T 19:17, 1 April 2010 (UTC)