Samuel Ray Cummings

{{Short description|American judge (born 1944)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Samuel Ray Cummings | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | term_start = December 31, 2014 | term_end = | office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | term_start1 = December 9, 1987 | term_end1 = December 31, 2014 | appointer1 = Ronald Reagan | predecessor1 = Halbert Owen Woodward | successor1 = James Wesley Hendrix | pronunciation = | birth_name = Samuel Ray Commings | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|10|18}} | birth_place = Lubbock, Texas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = {{nowrap|Texas Tech University (BBA)}}<br>Baylor University (JD)  | footnotes = }} '''Samuel Ray Cummings''' (born October 18, 1944)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754076879547&seq=641|title=Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Part 4|year=1989|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=631}}</ref> is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

==Education and career==

Cummings was born in Lubbock, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Tech University in 1967 and a Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1970. He was in private practice in Amarillo, Texas from 1970 to 1987.<ref name="fjc.gov">{{FJC Bio|nid=1379661|inline=yes}}</ref>

=== Federal judicial service ===

On July 31, 1987, Cummings was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Judge Halbert Owen Woodward. Cummings was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1987, and received his commission on December 9, 1987. He assumed senior status on December 31, 2014.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>

===Notable cases===

On November 16, 2016, Cummings issued a permanent nationwide injunction blocking President Barack Obama's "Persuader Rule", finding, that its attempt to require an employer's attorney to publicly disclose advise provided to persuade against unionization violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dubé|first1=Lawrence E.|title=DOL Persuader Rule Blocked by Federal Judge|url=http://www.bna.com/dol-persuader-rule-n57982082867/|accessdate=20 November 2016|work=Bloomberg BNA Daily Labor Report}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * {{FJC Bio|nid=1379661}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cummings, Samuel Ray}} Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Category:United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan Category:Rawls College of Business alumni Category:21st-century American judges