Background
Real, Manuel Lawrence was born on January 27, 1924 in San Pedro, California, United States. Son of Francisco Jose and Maria (Mansano) Real.
Real, Manuel Lawrence was born on January 27, 1924 in San Pedro, California, United States. Son of Francisco Jose and Maria (Mansano) Real.
Bachelor of Science, University Southern California, 1944; student foreign trade, University of Southern California, 1946-1948; Bachelor of Laws, Loyola School Law, Los Angeles, 1951.
He was nominated in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Born in San Pedro, California to Spanish immigrant parents, Real received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Southern California in 1944 and an Bachelor of Laws from Loyola Law School in 1951. He was in the United States Navy Reserve during World World War II, from 1943 to 1945.
He was an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1952 to 1955.
He was in private practice in San Pedro from 1955 to 1964. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1964 to 1966.
On September 26, 1966, Real was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Central District of California created by 80 Statistics 75. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 20, 1966, and received his commission on November 3, 1966.
He served as chief judge of the district from 1982 to 1993.
In 2006, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, introduced a resolution permitting the Judiciary Committee to investigate Real to see whether impeachment hearings were warranted. The impeachment effort was later dropped. In 2008, Real received a public reprimand for his handling of a bankruptcy matter.
Pasadena Unified School District
He is known for his January 22, 1970 decision ordering Pasadena Unified School District to adopt a plan to correct racial imbalance at all levels. are enjoined from discriminating of the basis of race.. in the operation of the district." His decision: "Commencing in September of 1970, there shall be no school in the District elementary or junior high or senior high school, with a majority of any minority students." The board of education and the superintendent adopted a forced busing plan to meet the new legal mandate.
Real did not order forced busing. That was creation of the Pasadena Unified School District.
Other cases
Real was noted for his judicial behavior in the 2000s. From 2001 to 2009, he had custody of disputed Filipino assets, for which he had to account in 2009.
A federal appeals court panel ruled that his accounting "plainly fails to account for all transactions involving the assets during the eight years they were held in the clerk of court"s custody.
lieutenant doesn"t give the reader even a basic understanding of the path by which $33.8 million worth of assets deposited in September 2000 came to be worth $34.7 million today". On January 11, 2012, the Ninth Circuit removed Real from the controversial case of Alexander Sanchez, a former M13 gang leader turned gang interventionist. Real was removed from other cases for behavior which threatened the impartiality of certain trials, including that of United States. v Joseph Pritchard, and Velasquez v.
City of Long Beach.
In November 2012 it was reported that Real had shown a pattern of making rulings in favor of companies in which he owned stock.
"lieutenant is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendants, Pasadena City Board of Education, Mistress LuVerne LaMotte, Albert C. Lowe, Bradford C. Houser, John T. Welsh, and Joseph J. Engholm, as members of the Pasadena City Board of Education, and Ralph West. Hornbeck, as Superintendent of Schools.
Married Stella Emilia Michalik, October 15, 1955. Children: Michael, Melanie Marie, Timothy, John Robert.