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{{Short description|American judge}}
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|office = [[Senior status|Senior Judge]] of [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
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|term_start1 = March 27, 1978
| office = [[Senior status|Senior Judge]] of [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
| term_startterm_end1 = JuneJanuary 114, 19861981
|predecessor1 = [[David L. Bazelon]]
| term_end = August 6, 1988
|successor1 office1 = [[Carl E. McGowan]]
|office2 = Chief = Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
|appointer2 = [[John F. Kennedy]]
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|term_start2 = March 30, 1962
| term_end1 = 1981
|term_end2 = June 1, 1986
| predecessor1 = [[David L. Bazelon]]
| successor1 predecessor2 = [[Carl E. McGowanBarrett Prettyman]]
|successor2 = [[Douglas H. Ginsburg]]
| office2 = Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
|office3 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana]]
| term_start2 = March 30, 1962
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|term_start3 = October 21, 1949
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| appointer2 = [[List of federal judges appointed by John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]]
| predecessor2 predecessor3 = [[EWayne G. Barrett PrettymanBorah]]
| successor2 successor3 = [[DouglasFrank H.Burton GinsburgEllis]]
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| term_start3 = October 21, 1949
|birth_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], U.S.
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|death_place = [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]], U.S.
| appointer3 = [[List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman|Harry S. Truman]]
|education = [[Loyola University New Orleans]] ([[Bachelor of Philosophy|PhB]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| predecessor3 = [[Wayne G. Borah]]
| successor3 = [[Frank Burton Ellis]]
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'''James Skelly Wright''' (January 14, 1911 – August 6, 1988) was a [[United States federal judge|United States Circuitcircuit Judgejudge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]] and previously was a United States Districtdistrict Judgejudge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana]].
 
==EducationEarly life and career==
 
Born on January 14, 1911, in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], Wright received a [[Bachelor of Philosophy]] in 1931 from [[Loyola University New Orleans]] and a [[Juris Doctor]] in 1934 from [[Loyola University New Orleans College of Law]]. He was a high school teacher in [[New Orleans]] from 1932 to 1936. He was a lecturer at Loyola University New Orleans from 1936 to 1937. He was an [[Assistant United States Attorney]] for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1937 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1946. He was a [[United States Coast Guard]] [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|lieutenant commander]] from 1942 to 1945. He was in private practice in [[Washington, D.C.]], from 1946 to 1948.<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|2661|nid=1390161|name=James Skelly Wright<!--(1911–1988)-->}}</ref> HeWright was the [[United States Attorney]] for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1948 to 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.justice.gov/usao/lae/former_usa.html|title=United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Louisiana - USAO-EDLA - Department of Justice|website=www.justice.gov|date=18 November 2014}}</ref> He was faculty at the Loyola University of New Orleans College of Law from 1950 to 1962.<ref name="auto"/>
 
==Eastern District of Louisiana==
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==D.C. Circuit Court==
Wright was nominated by President [[John F. Kennedy]] on February 2, 1962, to a seat on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]] vacated by Judge [[E. Barrett Prettyman]]. He was confirmed by the Senate on March 28, 1962, and received his commission on March 30, 1962.<ref name="auto"/> He served as Chief Judge from March 27, 1978 to January 14, 1981.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/138800157/|title=Judge Designated|work=The Boston Globe|date=March 28, 1978}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albuquerque-tribune/138800520/|title=People|work=The Albuquerque Tribune|date=January 15, 1981}}</ref> He assumed [[senior status]] on June 1, 1986.<ref name="auto"/> He served as a Judge of the [[Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals]] from 1981 to 1987, serving as Chief Judge from 1982 to 1987.<ref He assumed [[senior status]] on June 1, 1986.name="auto"/>
 
===Notable cases===
*In ''[[Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.]]'' (1965), Wright interpreted the common law concept of contract [[unconscionability]] to prevent the exploitation of the poor. This is a major decision in the field of [[consumer protection]].<ref>James{{Cite Wright.web |title=Answers.com. West's- EncyclopediaThe ofMost AmericanTrusted Law,Place Thefor GaleAnswering Group,Life's Inc,Questions 1998. http|url=https://www.answers.com/topic/jamesredirectSearch |access-wright,date=2024-06-11 accessed|website=Answers November 22, 2006.|language=en}}</ref>
*In ''[[Hobson v. Hansen]]'' (1967), Wright held that [[tracking (education)|tracking in schools]] compromised the "right to equal educational opportunity" for the District's poor and disadvantaged.
*In ''[[Javins v. First National Realty Corp.]]'' (1970), Wright developed the theory of [[implied warranty of habitability]] in the field of lease law.<ref>428 F.2d 1071.</ref>
* In ''[[Edwards v. Habib]]'' (1969) and ''[[Robinson v. Diamond Housing Corp.]]'' (1972), Wright developed the [[retaliatory eviction]] doctrine, prohibiting landlords from evicting tenants who raised housing code violations to authorities.<ref>[[Retaliatory eviction]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=May 2020}}
*In ''[[New York Times Co. v. United States]]'', Wright argued in dissent that the Nixon administration could not block the publication of the [[Pentagon Papers]]. The Supreme Court agreed with Wright, and overruled the D.C circuit
 
==Death and legacy==
His service terminated on August 6, 1988, due to his death in the Westmoreland Hills neighborhood of [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]].<ref name="auto"/> Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]] wrote a memoriam for Judge Wright in the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1341383?seq|jstor=1</ref>{{Citation1341383|title=In Memoriam: J. Skelly neededWright|datelast1=SeptemberBrennan|first1=William 2018J.|last2=Wald|first2=Patricia M.|last3=Parker|first3=Richard|last4=Monroe|first4=Bill|journal=Harvard Law Review|year=1988|volume=102|issue=2|pages=361–374}}</ref>
 
Wright is recognized for exerting a major influence on the American law of landlord-tenant. Several of his decisions on the D.C. Circuit helped modernize landlord-tenant jurisdprudencejurisprudence by incorporating consumer protection principles long accepted in [[contract law]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Behlar |first=Patricia A. |date=1974 |title=J. Skelly Wright: the Career and Constitutional Approach of a Federal Judge. |url=https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3651&context=gradschool_disstheses |access-date=June 11, 2024 |website=digitalcommons.lsu.edu}}</ref>
 
The J. Skelly Wright Professorship at [[Yale Law School]] is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6188 |title=ArchivedHeather copyGerken Named J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law |access-date=2009-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726215050/http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6188 |archive-date=2010-07-26 |df= }}</ref>
 
===Notable former clerks===
 
*Richard Cotton, former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, [[NBC Universal]]
*[[Rick Cotton|Richard "Rick" Cotton]], current Executive Director of the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]], former EVP and General Counsel of [[NBC Universal]]
*[[Keith P. Ellison]], Judge for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]]
*[[Susan Estrich]], attorney and [[Fox News]] personality
*[[Richard H. Fallon Jr.]], [[Harvard Law School]] professor
*[[Raymond C. Fisher]], Judge for the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]]
*[[Thomas C. Grey]], [[Stanford Law School]] professor
*Michael C. Harper, [[Boston University School of Law]] professor
*John Herfort, partner at [[Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP]]
*[[Curtis A. Hessler]], former [[Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy]]
*Curtis Hessler, business executive
*Peter J. Kalis, [[K&L Gates]] Chairman and Global Managing Partner,
*[[Sally Katzen]], Former official in the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] White House
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*[[Michael W. McConnell]], former Judge for [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit]]
*Victoria Radd Rollins, aide to the [[Bill Clinton administration]]
*[[Abraham D.David Sofaer]], former Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] and later [[Legal Adviser of the Department of State]]
*[[Louis Michael Seidman|L. Michael Seidman]], [[Georgetown University Law Center]] professor
*Carol S. Steiker, [[Harvard Law School]] professor
*[[David O. Stewart]], author and attorney
*[[Geoffrey R. Stone]], [[University of Chicago Law School]] professor
*[[Donald B. Verrilli Jr.]], [[Solicitor General of the United States]]
*[[John F. Walsh]], United States Attorney for the District of Colorado
*[[Robert Weisberg]], [[Stanford Law School]] professor
 
==References==
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==Sources==
* {{FJC Bio|2661|nid=1390161|name=James Skelly Wright<!--(1911–1988)-->}}
 
==External links==
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* {{FJC Bio|nid=1390161}}
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+ms003076) Registry of Judge Wright's papers] from the [[Library of Congress]]
 
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