Federal judiciary
Sidney Allen Fitzwater
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- Ronald ReaganRepublican
- Seat
- TXND0702
- Nominated
- Jan. 29, 1986
- Committee hearing
- Feb. 5, 1986
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)Feb. 27, 1986
- Senate vote
- 52–42Roll Call
- Confirmed
- March 18, 1986
- Commissioned
- March 19, 1986
- ABA rating
- Qualified
- Chief Judge from
- Jan. 1, 2007until Jan. 1, 2014
- Senior status
- Sept. 22, 2018
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Sept. 30panel identified Sat on the panel in Baker Ranches, Inc. v. Burgum
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Sept. 24panel identified Sat on the panel in Ridings v. Peacehealth
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Sept. 3panel identified Sat on the panel in Courthouse News Service v. Omundson
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July 20panel identified Sat on the panel in Garcia Demetrio v. Blanche
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June 3panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Deborba
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Jan. 28panel identified Sat on the panel in Avery v. Teksystems, Inc.
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Jan. 13panel identified Sat on the panel in Howard v. Republican National Committee
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Dec. 30, 2024panel identified Sat on the panel in Corrine Thomas v. County of Humboldt
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Oct. 8, 2024panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Reginald Elmore
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Sept. 5, 2024panel identified Sat on the panel in Relevant Group, LLC v. Stephen Nourmand
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Aug. 27, 2024panel identified Sat on the panel in Kimberly Marroquin v. City of Los Angeles
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Aug. 15, 2024panel identified Sat on the panel in Rana v. Jenkins
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Ranches, Inc. v. Burgum | 24-5713 | Decided | Sept. 30, 2026 | |
| Ridings v. Peacehealth | 24-7282 | Decided | Sept. 24, 2026 | |
| Courthouse News Service v. Omundson | 24-6697 | Decided | Sept. 3, 2026 | |
| Garcia Demetrio v. Blanche | 25-991 | Decided | July 20, 2026 | |
| United States v. Deborba | 24-3304 | Decided | June 3, 2026 | |
| Avery v. Teksystems, Inc. | 24-5810 | Decided | Jan. 28, 2026 | |
| Howard v. Republican National Committee | 23-3826 | Decided | Jan. 13, 2026 | |
| Corrine Thomas v. County of Humboldt | 23-15847 | Decided | Dec. 30, 2024 | |
| United States v. Reginald Elmore | 22-16539 | Decided | Oct. 8, 2024 | |
| Relevant Group, LLC v. Stephen Nourmand | 23-55574 | Decided | Sept. 5, 2024 | |
| Kimberly Marroquin v. City of Los Angeles | 23-55423 | Decided | Aug. 27, 2024 | |
| Rana v. Jenkins | 23-1827 | Decided | Aug. 15, 2024 | |
| Jaime Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis | 20-35875 | Decided | Dec. 4, 2023 | |
| Swinomish Indian Tribal Cmty. v. Lummi Nation | 21-35812 | Decided | Oct. 3, 2023 | |
| United States v. Richard Marschall | 22-30048 | Decided | Sept. 20, 2023 | |
| Punchbowl, Inc. v. Aj Press, LLC | 21-55881 | Decided | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| United States v. Jason Sadler | 21-30277 | Decided | Aug. 15, 2023 | |
| Shane Love v. Aaron Villacana | 20-56003 | Decided | July 11, 2023 | |
| USA V. DAVID LINEHAN | 21-50206 | Decided | Dec. 22, 2022 | |
| United States v. Alexis Jaimez | 19-50253 | Decided | Aug. 23, 2022 |
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.