Amit Mehta

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amit Mehta

• His family moved to America from Gujarat when he was only 1 year old.

• He grew up in Reisterstown, Maryland, United States.

• He was athletic during his childhood and participated in various sports.

• He served as the Commissioner of the North Grounds Softball League from 1994 to 1997.

• He has served as a member of The Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, a student-edited law journal, from 1996-1997.

• He became a member of the Order of the Coif, an American honour society for law school graduates when he was a student in the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997.

• From 1993 to 1994, he worked at Squire Patton Boggs, LLP in Washington, D.C. as a paralegal.

• In 1997, he began to practice law at Latham & Watkins LLP.

• He joined Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in Washington, D.C. in 1999 as an associate and became a partner at the firm in 2010.

• From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

• From 2007 to 2011, he served as a Board of Director in the non-profit organisation, Facilitating Leadership in Youth from 2007 to 2011.

• In 2008, he raised approximately $500 in contributions for the presidential campaign of then-Senator, Barack Obama.

• In 2012, he was a part of the team that defended the former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in a sexual assault case in the New York state court.

• In 2013, he became the co-chair of the American Bar Association.

• He has served as a vice president on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project from 2013 to 2014.

• He worked at Super Lawyers, a rating service of exceptional lawyers, from 2014 to 2018.

• On 31 July 2014, he was nominated by the US President, Barack Obama to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

• He was appointed as the District Judge for the District of Columbia on 19 December 2014.

• On 19 June 2015, he took the oath of office and became the first Asian-Pacific American to be sworn into the District Court for the District of Columbia.

  

• In 2015, he stopped the merger of two biggest food distribution companies in America, Sysco and US Foods, in one of his first antitrust cases.

• He enjoys listening to hip-hop and cited Beyoncé‘s lyrics of the song ‘Sorry’ in a copyright case in 2018.

• In October 2020, he was assigned the antitrust lawsuit against Google after the United States Department of Justice sued Google over its violation of federal antitrust laws.

• He became a Judge at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2021.

• He has presided over several cases related to the United States Capitol attack that occurred on 6 January 2021 which resulted in over $2 million damage and more than 140 injured policemen.

• On 18 February 2022, he rejected US President Donald Trump‘s claim of “absolute immunity” from lawsuits after finding evidence of him being a co-conspirator with a few organised groups who indulged in violence during the Capitol attack.

• He is a member of the Council for Court Excellence.

• On 5 August 2024, he ruled that Google had violated the antitrust laws and acted as a monopolist. In his 277-page judgement, he wrote,
  

  After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”