The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced John F. Murphy’s nomination to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, making the Baker Hostetler partner one step closer to joining the elite group of former Federal Circuit clerks now on the bench.
The panel voted to approve Murphy’s nomination by an 18-4 vote Thursday. President Joe Biden tapped Murphy—a patent litigator, Rutgers Law-Camden adjunct professor, and former clerk to Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—to be the newest district judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in July.
“John is a talented, intelligent, lawyer and a ...
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