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Otto Kaus was born on 7 January, 1920 in Vienna, Austria, is an American judge. Discover Otto Kaus's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 7 January, 1920
Birthday 7 January
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 1996
Died Place Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality Austria

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1920

Otto Michael Kaus (January 7, 1920 – January 11, 1996) was an Austrian-born lawyer and judge from the State of California.

Kaus was born in Vienna, Austria, as the first child of the writers Otto F. Kaus and Regina Weiner.

1930

He was already attending school in Great Britain when the rest of his family fled the Nazis in the 1930s.

1940

Immigrating to the United States in 1940, his family settled in Los Angeles, California.

1942

He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1942 with a B.A., and then joined the U.S. Army, where he served until 1945.

1943

On January 12, 1943, he married Alice Jane Berta Huttenbach, known as Peggy Alice Kaus (February 8, 1923 – July 5, 2011), in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and they had two sons: Stephen and Michael (Mickey).

1949

Following his discharge, he graduated from Loyola Law School in 1949, and was admitted to the state bar that year.

He then joined the law firm of Chase, Rotchford, Downen & Drukker, where he practiced for 11 years and became a partner.

1964

In December 1961, Kaus was appointed as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Pat Brown and, on December 28, 1964, Brown elevated Kaus to the California Court of Appeal, Second District, where he served until 1981.

1966

On the appellate court, Kaus served as an associate justice of Division Three until December 16, 1966, and then as Presiding Justice of Division Five until July 21, 1981.

1981

In July 1981, Kaus was chosen to serve as Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court by Governor Jerry Brown, whose father had appointed Kaus to his previous post.

He was confirmed with little trouble.

1982

In 1982, Kaus was on the ballot for retention by the voters, along with fellow justices Cruz Reynoso and Allen Broussard.

However, the state Supreme Court had become controversial due to the growing perception by many that Brown's appointees, particularly Chief Justice Rose Bird, were liberal ideologues whose rulings were political.

Although Kaus was considered the least ideological and most independent of Brown's appointees, he was reconfirmed by 57 percent of the voters, far less than expected, after a campaign was waged against Brown's appointees that year.

After being retained, Kaus was shaken by the campaign against him and feared for the independence of the state judiciary.

He later remarked, "You cannot forget the fact that you have a crocodile in your bathtub. You keep wondering whether you're letting yourself be influenced, and you do not know. You do not know yourself that well".

In addition, his mother-in-law was in failing health.

1983

While on the bench, his notable cases include his concurring opinion in National Audubon Society v. Superior Court (1983), concerning the conflict between the public trust doctrine and appropriative water rights.

1984

In 1984, he wrote the opinion for a unanimous court in People v. Bledsoe that rape trauma syndrome is inadmissible as evidence of the crime.

1985

So in October 1985, Kaus resigned from the court.

He was replaced by Edward A. Panelli.

1986

After leaving the judiciary, Kaus resumed private practice, forming the law firm of Hufstedler & Kaus in 1986 (the other "name" partner was former U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler), where he occasionally argued cases before the state Supreme Court where he had once served.

He also mentored then-associate Jeffrey Ehrlich, who would later rise to national prominence for arguing cases in the United States and California Supreme Court.

1995

Kaus retired from the practice of law in 1995, as he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

1996

On January 11, 1996, he died in Beverly Hills, California.

His wife and son, Mickey, were at his side.