Federal judiciary
Eric Nicholas Vitaliano
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- George W. BushRepublican
- Seat
- NYED0109
- Nominated
- Oct. 6, 2005
- Committee hearing
- Nov. 1, 2005
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)Nov. 17, 2005
- Senate vote
- Voice
- Confirmed
- Dec. 21, 2005
- Commissioned
- Jan. 19, 2006
- ABA rating
- Qualified
- Senior status
- Feb. 28, 2017
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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July 22panel identified Sat on the panel in Torres-Casas v. Blanche
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Aug. 15, 2023panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Leon Eckford
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Dec. 20, 2022panel identified Sat on the panel in D. R. V. RBUSD
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Dec. 8, 2020panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Luis Ruiz Gainza
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Dec. 9, 2019panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Michael Kimbrew
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Sept. 12, 2019panel identified Sat on the panel in In re: Stuart Scott Snyder
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Sept. 9, 2019panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Doe
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
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| Torres-Casas v. Blanche | 25-172 | Decided | July 22, 2026 | |
| United States v. Leon Eckford | 17-50167 | Decided | Aug. 15, 2023 | |
| D. R. V. RBUSD | 21-56053 | Decided | Dec. 20, 2022 | |
| United States v. Luis Ruiz Gainza | 19-10430 | Decided | Dec. 8, 2020 | |
| United States v. Michael Kimbrew | 18-50251 | Decided | Dec. 9, 2019 | |
| In re: Stuart Scott Snyder | 18-1578-bk | Decided | Sept. 12, 2019 | |
| United States v. Doe | 17-1814-cr (L), 17-1868-cr (CON) | Decided | Sept. 9, 2019 |
Judicial writings
No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.
Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.