Labor Standards Act (FLSA) anti-retaliation provision because it was based on the content of his testimony, not on the mere fact that he testified. Juliana v. United States (2020): Writing for a 2-1 majority in the widely-followed and so-called Kids' Climate Change case, Judge Hurwitz ruled against a group of youth plaintiffs seeking judicial redress under the U.S. Constitution for longstanding U.S. government policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, on the basis that federal courts must defer to the other branches of government in such policy matters, although his majority opinion did express sympathy for the environmentalists. Duncan v. Bonta (2021): In a concurring opinion to the majority en banc ruling that upheld a California regulation on firearms, Judge Hurwitz singled out a dissent written by Judge Lawrence VanDyke and rebuked his colleague "for attacking the personal motives of his sisters and brothers on this Court." Hurwitz pointed out that individual members of the majority panel owned handguns in their homes for self-defense and had served in the military where they bore arms. Hurwitz called for a higher level of respect, indicating that all federal judges swear an oath to uphold the constitution and are duty-bound to interpret the right to bear arms in the context of the public's desire to protect itself from indiscriminate mass shootings, saying: "The people of California should not be precluded from attempting to prevent mass murders simply because they don’t occur regularly enough in the eyes of an unelected Article III judge." Personal He is a native of Boonton, New Jersey, having moved there with his family at the age of 3 and a 1964 graduate of Boonton High School. He is married to Dr. Sally Hurwitz, formerly an associate dean at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. See also Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies List of Jewish American jurists List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8) References External links Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project 1947 births Living people 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges 21st-century American lawyers 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews Arizona State University faculty Boonton High School alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Justices of the Arizona Supreme Court Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States People from Boonton, New Jersey Princeton