Joseph Michael McLaughlin

Appointment

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Title: Judge
Appointed by: George H.W. BushRepublican
Seat: CA21004
Nominated: July 10, 1990
Committee hearing: Oct. 5, 1990
Committee action: Reported (favorably)Oct. 11, 1990
Senate vote: Voice
Confirmed: Oct. 12, 1990
Commissioned: Oct. 17, 1990
ABA rating: Well Qualified
Senior status: March 20, 1998
Service ended: Aug. 8, 2013Death

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Judicial service history

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	Sept. 28, 1981	Oct. 18, 1990 Appointment to Another Judicial Position	Ronald Reagan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Judge	Oct. 17, 1990	Aug. 8, 2013 Death	George H.W. Bush

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

Cases

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

Case	No.	Status	Date
Eusebio Bernard v. United States of America, Eusebio Bernard v. James Clifford, Brian Fitzpatrick, a Certain Unidentified Confidential Informant, and Unidentified Agents, Officers, Employees and Servants of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Designated "John and Jane Doe Numbered: 1 Through 5," Jointly and Severally, All Such Being Employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration.		Decided	May 25, 1994
Salahuddin v. Coughlin, III		Decided	May 14, 1993

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.