Edward R. Korman

In addition to continuing his caseload in Brooklyn, Korman has also sat by designation on the Second, Sixth, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals from 2008 to present.

[4] In 2005, Korman wrote the foreword to the book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by Haddassa Ben-Itto.

[1] Judge Korman has received numerous awards, some of which include: 1989: Korman ordered the extradition of Mahmoud Abed Atta (a member of the Abu Nidal Organization) to Israel to stand trial for a terrorist bombing that occurred on a bus traveling between the West Bank and Tel Aviv.

Korman cited the assistance that the defendants provided to the prosecution and the need to balance punishment with incentives for cooperation.

[11] 1996: Korman held that the Republican Party's primary system had an unconstitutional "chilling effect" on certain viable candidates.

He wrote, "only the most atypical of candidates, ones with unlimited financial resources" had a chance of their names appearing on the ballot.

[12] 1998-2005: Korman oversaw a class-action settlement involving certain Swiss banks that retained the assets of Holocaust victims following World War II.

"[13] In later years, however, academic Norman Finkelstein chastises Korman's approach as one that erroneously accepted inflated evidence regarding the value of retained assets of Holocaust victims, contributing to systematic "blackmail" of the Swiss banks through forcing them to pay incorrectly large monetary sums to settle the lawsuit.

[14] 2000: Korman found that the Republican presidential nomination scheme was unconstitutional as "pos[ing] an undue burden in its totality on the right to vote."