Amit Mehta Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Amit Priyavadan Mehta
Profession	Law Professional
Famous for	Ruling Google as monopoly and in violation of US antitrust laws
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 10" (178 cm)
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Black
Honours	• Named in The National Law Journal's Minority 40 Under 40 list (2011) • Named in The Economic Times' list of 7 Prominent Legal Eagles of lndian Origin in the U.S. (2013)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	Year, 1971
Age (as of 2024)	53 Years
Birthplace	Patan, Gujarat, India
Signature
Nationality	American
School	Franklin High School, Maryland, United States (1989)
College/University	• James Madison University, Virginia, United States (1989-1990) • Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States (1990-1993) • University of Virginia School of Law, Virginia, United States (1994-1997)
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from the Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. • Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, Virginia
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Caroline Judge Mehta (Advocate)
Family
Wife/Spouse	Caroline Judge Mehta (Advocate)
Children	Son- Kian Mehta Daughter- Devan Mehta
Parents	Father- Priyavadan Mehta (Engineer) Mother- Ragini Mehta (Laboratory Technician)
Siblings	Sister- Sheetal Prasad
Favourites
Music Genre	Hip Hop
Rapper(s)	Jay-Z, Kanye West, Drake, Eminem
Baseball Team	Baltimore Orioles
Money Factor
Salary (approx.)	$246,300 (as of 2024) (as a District Judge)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amit Mehta

• His family moved to America from Gujarat when he was only 1 year old.

• He grew up in Reisterstown, Maryland, United States.

• He was athletic during his childhood and participated in various sports.

• He served as the Commissioner of the North Grounds Softball League from 1994 to 1997.

• He has served as a member of The Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, a student-edited law journal, from 1996-1997.

• He became a member of the Order of the Coif, an American honour society for law school graduates when he was a student in the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997.

• From 1993 to 1994, he worked at Squire Patton Boggs, LLP in Washington, D.C. as a paralegal.

• In 1997, he began to practice law at Latham & Watkins LLP.

• He joined Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in Washington, D.C. in 1999 as an associate and became a partner at the firm in 2010.

• From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

• From 2007 to 2011, he served as a Board of Director in the non-profit organisation, Facilitating Leadership in Youth from 2007 to 2011.

• In 2008, he raised approximately $500 in contributions for the presidential campaign of then-Senator, Barack Obama.

• In 2012, he was a part of the team that defended the former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in a sexual assault case in the New York state court.

• In 2013, he became the co-chair of the American Bar Association.

• He has served as a vice president on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project from 2013 to 2014.

• He worked at Super Lawyers, a rating service of exceptional lawyers, from 2014 to 2018.

• On 31 July 2014, he was nominated by the US President, Barack Obama to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

• He was appointed as the District Judge for the District of Columbia on 19 December 2014.

• On 19 June 2015, he took the oath of office and became the first Asian-Pacific American to be sworn into the District Court for the District of Columbia.
  

  Amit Mehta during the oath ceremony

• In 2015, he stopped the merger of two biggest food distribution companies in America, Sysco and US Foods, in one of his first antitrust cases.

• He enjoys listening to hip-hop and cited Beyoncé‘s lyrics of the song ‘Sorry’ in a copyright case in 2018.

• In October 2020, he was assigned the antitrust lawsuit against Google after the United States Department of Justice sued Google over its violation of federal antitrust laws.

• He became a Judge at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2021.

• He has presided over several cases related to the United States Capitol attack that occurred on 6 January 2021 which resulted in over $2 million damage and more than 140 injured policemen.

• On 18 February 2022, he rejected US President Donald Trump‘s claim of “absolute immunity” from lawsuits after finding evidence of him being a co-conspirator with a few organised groups who indulged in violence during the Capitol attack.

• He is a member of the Council for Court Excellence.

• On 5 August 2024, he ruled that Google had violated the antitrust laws and acted as a monopolist. In his 277-page judgement, he wrote,
  

  After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”