U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Oct. 24, 2012
Veteran 9th Circuit judge dies
Otto R. Skopil Jr., who served as a federal district judge and, since 1979, as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died at the age of 93.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Otto R. Skopil Jr., a senior judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died at home in Portland Thursday at the age of 93.
The judge, who served the federal judiciary for 40 years, was first nominated to the bench by President Richard M. Nixon in 1972 to be a district judge in Oregon. There, Skopil ruled on issues ranging from the constitutionality of Oregon's death penalty statute to the a...
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