George Cheney Pratt · Benchlight

Appointment

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

Court	Title	Commissioned	Ended	Appointed by
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York	Judge	May 7, 1976	June 29, 1982 Appointment to Another Judicial Position	Gerald Ford
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Judge	June 21, 1982	Jan. 31, 1995 Retirement	Ronald Reagan

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

Case	No.	Status	Date
United States v. Rivera		Decided	Feb. 18, 1988	Authored
32 Fair empl.prac.cas. 641, 32 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,710 Henry Ingram, James Britt, William Moody, and Roy T. Floyd, Individually and on Behalf of All Persons Similarly Situated, and Frances Williams, Edward Milon, Horace Mitchell, Herbert Bruton, Jovino Garcia, Intervenors v. Madison Square Garden Center, Inc., Madison Square Garden Corporation, Allied Maintenance Corporation and Allied Public Events Service Corporation, and Local Union No. 3, Ibew, Afl-Cio, Shelly L. Anderson, James L. Perry, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Madison Square Garden Center, Inc., Madison Square Garden Corporation, Allied Maintenance Corporation, Allied Public Events Service Corporation, Local 54, Service Employees International Union, and Local Union No. 3, Ibew, Afl-Cio		Decided	Oct. 31, 1983

Opinions, concurrences and dissents attributed to this judge by the source record.

Type	Case	Court	Filed
Opinion	United States v. Rivera	Second Circuit	Feb. 18, 1988

Counting writings Benchlight holds, 1988–1988. Earlier work may not yet be recorded.

Computed by Benchlight

Law clerk, Hon. Charles W. Froessel, New York State Court of Appeals, 1953-1955
Private practice, Nassau County, New York, 1955-1976
Adjunct professor, St. John's University School of Law, 1978-1992
Distinguished visiting professor of law, Hofstra University, 1979-1993
Faculty, Touro College School of Law, 1985-2003; adjunct professor, 1985-1993; professor of law, 1993-2003
Private practice, Uniondale, New York, 2001-

Source Federal Judicial Center biographical record.