Walter E. Dellinger III

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Walter Estes Dellinger, III


order=40^th
title=United States Solicitor General
term_start=August, 1996
term_end=October, 1997
president=Bill Clinton
predecessor=Drew S. Days, III
successor=Seth P. Waxman
birth_date=birth date and age|1941|05|15
birth_place=Charlotte, North Carolina
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party=Democrat

Walter Estes Dellinger, III (born May 15,1941 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's [http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2007/01/30_ussc.php/ Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic] . He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. He has also appeared as a commentator on "This Week", the ABC News Sunday morning program hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Dellinger is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale Law School.

He is the father of lawyer and political candidate Hampton Dellinger.

On March 18, 2008, he represented the District of Columbia in the United States Supreme Court in "District of Columbia v. Heller". The District argued that its Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 is not implicated by the Second Amendment. [cite news
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In February 2008, he represented Exxon Mobil Corporation in the Supreme Court in "Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker", which addressed whether certain punitive damages are available under federal maritime law. This case relates to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989.

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External links

* [http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/dellinger/ Duke Law School biography]
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/ Office of the Solicitor General]
* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2007/01/30_ussc.php/ Harvard Law School Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic]