Jacqueline Chooljian

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Jacqueline Chooljian is a United Magistrate Judge appointed by the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

1 Education
2 Work history
3 Controversy
4 References

[edit] Education

B.A. degree (magna cum laude) from UCLA in 1982,
J.D. degree from USC

[edit] Work history

Assistant United States Attorney and Special Counsel to the US Attorney for the Central District of California.
Chief of the Criminal Division.
Associate with the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Magistrate

[edit] Controversy

Controversial ruling that a computer's RAM is a document that can be requested in court, and that all ram traffic must be archived

In a lawsuit MPAA vs TorrentSpy, Judge Jacqueline Chooljian ordered TorrentSpy to save its server logs to disk and present them to the court as evidence in the case. The logs contain user IP addresses and lists of downloaded files. No American court ever made such an order, and many believe it has the power to erode privacy across the web. As a result of the ruling TorrentSpy has decided to block US users, although it denied that the block was connected to the lawsuit. ^[1]