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Stephen Hale Anderson (born 1932) is a United States federal judge.

=Early Life= Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Anderson received an LL.B. from the University of Utah College of Law in 1960. He was in the United States Army 44th Infantry Division from 1953 to 1955. He was a trial attorney of Tax Division, United States Department of Justice from 1960 to 1964. He was in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1964 to 1985.

=Judicial Career= On July 23, 1985, Anderson was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit created by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 16, 1985, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on January 1, 2000.

Judge Anderson served as chair of the Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction from 1995-1998. During his tenure, he testified in front of Congress many times concerning related courts legislation.

Federal Jurisdiction
Citing Hagen v. Utah, 510 U.S. 399 (1994) which redrew the boundaries of the Uintah-Ouray indian reservation, Judge Anderson wrote in 3-0 opinion that Hagen "did not purport to narrow the scope of the federal criminal statutes... so as to exclude the conduct -- homicide and abusive sexual acts. To the contrary, Congress clearly intended that such conduct be made criminal and punished in federal court, whenever state court jurisdiction was lacking."

Lawrence Energy Center Explosion
In November of 1997, an explosion at a Lawrence, Kansas power plant left an electrician, Charles Edward Price, and two other men dead from severe burns. Price's family filed a complaint against Westar Energy (then named Western Resources) seeking unspecified damages for personal injury and wrongful death.

Judge Anderson upheld a lower court's ruling that said Kansas law permitted families to only collect benefits through the workers' compensation system, and not through the courts.

"It cannot be said that (the Kansas law) is an arbitrary or irrational legislative action. On the contrary, it appears to be the result of a well thought-out compromise between the interests of employers and workers," Anderson wrote.

Search and Seizure
On Dec. 16, 1994, deputies served a search warrant authorizing seizure of marajuana and firearms from the property of Albert Foster Jr. However, "deputies also seized about 100 pieces of property, including tools, televisions, a lawn mower, coveralls, jewelry, knives and coins."

Seen as a violation of the fourth amendment, U.S. District Judge Frank Seay ordered the suppression of all evidence obtained from the raid and the ruling was upheld in a 2-1 vote by the Tenth Circuit. Judge Michael Murphy wrote the majority opinion for the court.

Judge Anderson dissented, writing that only the evidence not specified by the search warrant be suppressed. He did, however, concur in part that the deputies violated Foster's fourth amendment rights.

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