restrictions by the Trump administration within its own jurisdiction but declined to block the new asylum rules across the entire nation. In September 2020, Bennett dissented when the panel majority found that a robocall defendant could not use the Federal Arbitration Act to compel enforcement of a customer agreement the plaintiff had signed years earlier with a separate company that had subsequently been acquired by the holding company that now also owned the defendant. On December 4, 2021, Bennett was one of two judges who declined to halt San Diego Unified School District's requirements that students be vaccinated by December 20th. Personal life Bennett was born February 24, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. He is married to Honolulu attorney Patricia Tomi Ohara. He has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2016. References External links |- 1953 births Living people 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Cornell Law School alumni Federalist Society members Hawaii Attorneys General Hawaii lawyers Hawaii Republicans Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Lawyers from Brooklyn Union College (New York) alumni United States court of appeals judges appointed by Donald Trump University of Hawaiʻi faculty