George La Plata (October 17, 1924 – November 14, 2010) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
George La Plata
Michigan Eastern District Court
Born 1924 in Detroit, MI
Died 2010 in Naples, FL
FJC ID: 1339
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 3/year
Michigan Eastern District Court · 1985–1996
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- Hispanic
Prior employment
- Detroit College of LawProfessor · 1985–1986
- Michigan Circuit Court, Sixth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1979–1985
- Private practice, Detroit, Michigan1956–1979
U.S. Marine Corps1943–1946, 1952–1954
Appointments
1985–1996 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law)LL.B. · 1956
- Wayne University (now Wayne State University)A.B. · 1951