Respected former federal appeals judge with Carnegie roots dies

Jan 06, 2015 526

By Brian Bowling

Found squatting in the rarely used chambers of a tax judge while waiting for his own chambers, newly appointed federal appeals Judge Ruggero Aldisert called upon his Marine skills when the angry tax judge showed up and became abusive toward Aldisert's secretary.


"The next thing I knew, the judge came striding out of his chambers and, let's say, escorted (the tax judge) out of the building," said Robert Cindrich, who was one of Aldisert's first law clerks after President Lyndon Johnson appointed Aldisert to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1968.

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