Ralph Nader Fast Facts

Birth place: Winsted, Connecticut

Birth name: Ralph Nader

Father: Nathra Nader

Mother: Rose (Bouziane) Nader

Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1955, Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958

Military: U.S. Army, 1959

Other Facts:
Writer and attorney.

Green Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000; Independent candidate in 2004 and 2008.

November 16, 2010 – A judge in Maine dismisses a November 2009 lawsuit filed by Nader that accuses Democrats of conspiring to keep him off the ballot in the 2004 presidential race.

June 2011 – Relaunches the League of Fans, his sports reform project, and as part of an eleven-part sports manifesto, pledges to bring an antitrust suit against the Bowl Series Championship.

November 9, 2011 – Nader losses his June 2010 federal case against the FEC and files an appeal.

April 19, 2012 – Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturns the 2010 dismissal of the 2009 Superior Court lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others.

September 20, 2012 – Maine Superior Court Justice Kevin M. Cuddy rules that the 2009 lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others will go to trial.

April 2012 – Informally endorses former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president during a press conference.

May 23, 2013 – The Maine Supreme Court orders that Nader’s lawsuit against the Democratic Party be dismissed.

April 29, 2014 – Releases a new book, “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.”

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