Background
Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina.
Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina.
He graduated from Suffield Academy in 1971, and received a Bachelor from Yale University in 1975.
He received a Juris Doctor from the University of California Berkeley School of Law in 1978. Daniels was as a criminal defense attorney for the Legal Aid Society of New York from 1978-1980. Afterwards, he clerked for Chief Justice Rose East. Bird of the California Supreme Court from 1980-1981.
He was a Bar review course instructor at the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1981.
From 1981 to 1983, he was in private practice with the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Daniels served as an Assistant United States. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.
He was an Adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School from 1988 to 1991. In 1989, Judge Daniels was appointed a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Edward I. Koch.
In 1990, Judge Daniels stepped down from the bench to serve as Counsel to the Mayor of the City of New York David North. Dinkins.
In 1993, Judge Daniels was re-appointed a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor David North. Dinkins. In 1995, Judge Daniels was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New New York Daniels was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 5, 1999 to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, vacated by Robert P. Patterson, Junior.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24, 2000, and received his commission on March 9, 2000.
Judgement against Iran for 9/11 attacks
United States District Judge George Daniels ordered Iran to pay over $10 billion in damages to families of victims who died on September 11, 2001 including $3 billion to Chubb Limited, in spite of the fact that no evidence of Iran"s involvement or connection to First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda has been presented, nor were any of the 9/11 hijackers of Iranian background or citizenship. Earlier in 2015, Daniels had cleared Saudi Arabia of any involvement or wrongdoing in the attacks and dismissed all charges against the kingdom.
Fifteen of the hijackers were of Saudi nationality.
