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Ninth Circuit

Benjamin Cushing Duniway

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Former Born Nov. 21, 1907, Stanford, CA Died Aug. 23, 1986 1 panel seat recorded

Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
John F. KennedyDemocratic
Seat
CA90702
Nominated
Sept. 14, 1961
Committee hearing
Sept. 19, 1961
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Sept. 20, 1961
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Sept. 21, 1961
Commissioned
Sept. 22, 1961
Senior status
Oct. 5, 1976
Service ended
Aug. 23, 1986Death

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

CaseNo.StatusDate
United States v. Daniel Newton Flickinger, United States of America v. John H. Munier, Jr., United States of America v. Robert William McLaughlin United States of America v. Stanley David Hayduk Decided May 25, 1978

Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.