David Brooks Smith

Cases in this dataset

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Case volume by filing year

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Recent cases

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Career history

• District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1988-10-17 to 2002-09-23 · George H.W. Bush
• Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2002-08-02 to End not recorded · Barack Hussein Obama
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania · 1988-10-17 to 2002-09-23 · Ronald Reagan
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2002-08-02 to End not recorded · George W. Bush

• Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law) J.D. 1976
• Franklin and Marshall College B.A. 1973
• The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University J.D. 1976

Sources and corrections

• fjc-bio · 2026-10-07
• courtlistener-people-bulk · 2026-10-07

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