Judge Hogan was born with a serious birth defect that prevented him from engaging in sports or vigorous physical activity, much to the disappointment of his father, a Navy commander, who was the Chief Medical Officer of the Letterman Naval Hospital in San Francisco.

[3][4] In 1986, Judge Hogan decided that the blind have a Constitutional right to have Playboy magazine provided to them in braille for free at the expense of the federal Government.

[5] Congress passed the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control "pork barrel spending" that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole.

In the second case, Hogan ruled February 12, 1998, that such unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution.

This ruling was affirmed on June 25, 1998, in a 6–3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York.

The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-January 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act."