FACT SHEET: Information on kyle dudek, trump's nominee to the u.s. district court for the middle district of Florida
FACT SHEET: Information on kyle dudek, trump's nominee to the u.s. district court for the middle district of Florida
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President Trump announced the nomination of Kyle Dudek to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Dudek has less than three years of experience as a magistrate judge, serving in the Middle District of Florida Court since 2022.
Background Defending Police Accused Of Brutality And Misconduct
As a corporate lawyer, Dudek built his practice around defending police departments, school districts, and other municipal entities against misconduct lawsuits, litigating numerous cases involving alleged excessive use of force, sexual violence, and discrimination––many of which were settled out of court.
In a 2022 police violence case assigned to Dudek shortly after his appointment as a magistrate judge, plaintiffs requested that he recuse himself due to his “longstanding history” of “representing multiple law enforcement and municipal defendants as lead attorney of record in this Middle District” in “similar” cases.
In one 2017 case that was eventually settled out of court, Dudek defended a Florida municipality in a lawsuit brought by an anonymous 16 year-old plaintiff who had allegedly been subjected to “sexual abuse and battery” at the hands of municipal police, including being forced to perform oral sex on an officer while being transported.
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