Otis D. Wright II

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama,[2][3] Wright received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University at Los Angeles in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School in 1980. He was in the United States Marine Corps from 1963 to 1966, remaining in the United States Marine Corps Reserve until 1969. He was a deputy sheriff in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from 1969 to 1980. He was a deputy attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice from 1980 to 1983. He was in private practice in Los Angeles, California from 1983 to 2005.

On October 28, 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would be appointing Wright to serve as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[4] Wright replaced Judge Lorna Parnell.[4]

Wright was nominated to the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President George W. Bush on January 9, 2007, to a seat vacated by Gary L. Taylor.[5] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 15, 2007, and received his commission on April 16, 2007.[5]

Case	Year	Reason for becoming widely discussed or noted
Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins	2011	Ruled against plaintiff's standing to sue because he had not alleged a sufficiently individualized injury. Wright was reversed by the unanimous United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which was itself then found to be in error by the U.S. Supreme Court.[6] On remand, the Ninth Circuit again found the plaintiff had standing to sue.[7]
Prenda Law	2013	Ruling against a "notorious" U.S. law firm and principals, which was viewed by onlookers and the court as engaging in copyright trolling and alleged legal extortion practices, often via shell companies. The case resulted in sanctions and law firm dissolution. Wright's opinion included a number of Star Trek catchphrases.[8][9]
U.S.A. v. Hudson, Whitfield & Dunlap	2014	Ruling against legitimacy of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ("ATF") fictional stash-house robbery sting operation; such operations had drawn significant media and judicial concerns previously for a perceived inherent lack of fairness.
Alan Baker v. Allstate Insurance Company	2019	Imposed sanctions in the amount of US$17,808[10] after plaintiff's attorney Christopher Hook sent widely-publicized[11] emails containing profanities and threats to counsel for Allstate.[12]
TikTok Inc. v. Donald J. Trump and U.S. Department of Commerce	2020	Case pending litigation.[13] The case impacts the nearly 80 million[14] TikTok users in the United States and has drawn significant attention from the press.

• Otis D. Wright II at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.