Jack B. Weinstein was a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, who presided over notable cases.After serving in the U.S.
Navy during World War II, Weinstein attended Columbia Law School and worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He taught at Columbia – his students included Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) – and served as Nassau County attorney before being appointed as a federal judge in 1967.
His court in the Eastern District of New York was based in Brooklyn. There, Weinstein presided over cases including a class action suit over Agent Orange, the herbicide used in the Vietnam War that is believed to have caused health problems in the military veterans who were exposed to it.
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