In the past year, Rakoff has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final regulation on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, dismissed an appeal of attorney fees in a class action against Google, reversed approval of a precertification class settlement in a case against Tinder and reversed dismissal of a trademark infringement case against an Australian skin care company.
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As soon as Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff signed an order finding the federal death penalty unconstitutional, he told his wife he'd also signed away any chance of being appointed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Rakoff based his 2002 ruling not on the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment -- the focus of most death penalty litigation -- but its guarantees of due process.
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