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108TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 108-85
DESIGNATION OF JAMES L. WATSON UNITED STATES
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE BUILDING
MAY 1, 2003.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1018]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 1018) to designate the building located
at 1 Federal Plaza in New York, New York, as the James L. Wat-
son United States Court of International Trade Building, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 1018 is to designate the building at 1 Fed-
eral Plaza in New York, New York as the James L. Watson United
States Court of International Trade Building.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION
James L. Watson was born in Harlem, New York. He served with
the Buffalo Soldiers in the 371st Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division
in World War II. He was wounded in Italy and returned to the
United States decorated with a Purple Heart and the Infantry
Combat Badge.
He graduated from New York University in 1947 and from
Brooklyn Law School in 1951. Judge Watson was elected to the
New York State Senate in 1954. In 1963, Judge Watson was elect-
ed to the New York City Civil Court.
President Johnson appointed Judge Watson to what was known
as the United States Customs Court and now known as the United
States Court of International Trade in 1966. The nine members of
the United States Customs Court could be assigned to sit in any
Federal District Court in the nation. Because of his previous expe-
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