About Joseph Weintraub
Lived 1908 – 1977 (aged 68–69). Joseph Weintraub was an American lawyer and judge.
Joseph Weintraub (1908–1977) was an American judge who graduated from Cornell Law School in 1930 and was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1957 to 1973. He previously served as an associate justice of the same court from 1956 to 1957. Weintraub was Jewish.
Among the opinions authored by Weintraub is State v. Abbott (1961), a landmark ruling that established the duty to retreat in New Jersey.
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American judge
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Joseph Weintraub was born in 1908.
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Joseph Weintraub died in 1977.
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Joseph Weintraub was a lawyer and judge.
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