Legal Beat

Denny Chin, a federal District Court judge in Manhattan, is expected to be nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Chin would be the only Asian American judge on any Circuit Court, which has been the case since A. Wallace "Wally" Tashima, a judge on the Ninth Circuit, took senior status in 2004. As we noted in February, Asian American legal groups have been pressing the Obama administration to change that.

Obama has nominated three Asian Americans to seats on California District Courts: Edward Milton Chen, Dolly Gee and Jacqueline Nguyen.