Who is District Judge Amit Mehta? | Q&A
Amit Priyavadan Mehta is a U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, appointed in 2014 by President Barack Obama. Born in 1971 in Patan, India, he moved to the U.S. at age one and grew up in Maryland. He graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and later earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Mehta's legal career includes working at Latham & Watkins LLP, clerking for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and serving at the D.C. Public Defender Service before returning to private practice.
Mehta has presided over significant cases, including the Google antitrust lawsuit, where he ruled Google violated antitrust laws, and cases related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, notably sentencing Oath Keepers' leader Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. He is also a judge on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, appointed in 2021 by Chief Justice John Roberts. His decisions have had a notable impact on tech policy and national security.
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