Federal judiciary
James Paul Oetken
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Appointment
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Title
- Judge
- Appointed by
- Barack ObamaDemocratic
- Seat
- NYSD2902
- Nominated
- Jan. 26, 2011
- Committee hearing
- March 16, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably)April 7, 2011
- Senate vote
- 80–13Roll Call
- Confirmed
- July 18, 2011
- Commissioned
- July 20, 2011
- ABA rating
- Qualified
Source Federal Judicial Center.
Recent judicial activity
Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.
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Aug. 31
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April 15panel identified Sat on the panel in Life Science Logistics, LLC v. United States
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Feb. 17
Cases
Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.
| Case | No. | Status | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constellation Designs, LLC v. Lg Electronics, Inc. | 24-1822 | Decided | Aug. 31, 2026 | |
| Life Science Logistics, LLC v. United States | 24-1522 | Decided | April 15, 2026 | |
| Willis Electric Co., Ltd. v. Polygroup Ltd. (Macao Commercial Offshore) | 24-2118 | Decided | Feb. 17, 2026 |
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.