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Matz was born in Brooklyn, New New York
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Howard Matz
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Columbia University; Harvard Law School.
Career
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1965 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1968. Matz clerked for Judge Morris East. Lasker of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and was in private practice in New York from 1970 to 1972. Matz moved to Los Angeles with the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, where he worked from 1972 to 1974.
On October 27, 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated Matz to a seat on the Central District of California vacated by Harry L. Hupp.
Matz was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on June 26, 1998. He assumed senior status on July 11, 2011 and retired on April 1, 2013.
Matz presided over the first legal challenge to the United States. government"s treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees in a habeas corpus petition brought by a civil rights group seeking relief for the detainees. Matz was the judge in Perfect 10 v.
Google, Incorporated., a copyright case in which Perfect 10 sued Google for displaying thumbnail-sized reproductions of its images.
Matz rejected Google"s fair use defense, distinguishing Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation. The Ninth Circuit reversed in Perfect 10, Incorporated. v.
Amazon.com, Incorporated.
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