Extract from Alaina Lancaster’s article “Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte to Retire After 21 Years on the Federal Bench”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte is set to retire in October 2019. Laporte, who first took the bench in 1998 and served as the Northern District of California’s chief magistrate judge from 2013 to 2015, helped shape patent and IP case law and advanced the court’s e-discovery procedures.
