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Oct 04, 1922 Youngstown, Ohio, United States Died on 19 Oct 1994 (aged 72)
United States federal judge
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About Frank J. Battisti
- Frank Joseph Battisti (October 4, 1922 – October 19, 1994) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
- Battisti's career featured groundbreaking—and sometimes controversial—rulings, notably his finding in 1976 that the Cleveland public school system was guilty of racial segregation.
- Two years earlier, in 1974, he dismissed a case against eight members of the Ohio Army National Guard accused of violating the civil rights of four Kent State University students who were shot dead in 1970.
- In the 1980s, he presided over a high-profile case involving Cleveland, Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who was deported amid charges that he committed war crimes in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
- During his decades as a jurist, Battisti was honored by various professional and civic organizations, but he was also a target of criticism.
