Who appointed Raymond Joseph Dearie?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Raymond Joseph Dearie to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 1986.

Was Raymond Joseph Dearie appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Raymond Joseph Dearie was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Raymond Joseph Dearie's confirmation vote?

Raymond Joseph Dearie was confirmed by voice vote on March 14, 1986. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Eastern District of New York / Appointed 1986 / Senior status since 2011

Raymond Joseph Dearie

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and confirmed by voice vote, Raymond Joseph Dearie is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He earned a law degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1969. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1986
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Fairfield 1966 · St. John's Law 1969
Succeeded by: Pamela Ki Mai Chen

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Eastern District of New York	Reagan (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Fairfield University	B.A.	1966
St. John's University School of Law	J.D.	1969

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Dearie was assigned 7,696 district-court cases (1981–2024). Median time from filing to termination: 244 days across 7,674 closed cases.

Contract17%

Civil rights14%

Prisoner & habeas13%

Personal-injury torts13%

Labor & ERISA12%

Other federal statutes12%

Other18%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 120 of Dearie’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 95 were affirmed, 17 reversed or vacated, and 8 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Dearie authored 134 published opinions for the court (1986–2011). Most cited: 266 Washington Associates v. Citibank, N.A. (In Re Washington Associates) (56 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1992	266 Washington Associates v. Citibank, N.A. (In Re Washington Associates)	147 B.R. 827	56
1997	Hughes v. Irvin	967 F. Supp. 775	48
2004	Batista v. Barnhart	326 F. Supp. 2d 345	46
2002	In Re CINAR Corp. Securities Litigation	186 F. Supp. 2d 279	44
2007	In Re Nigeria Charter Flights Contract Litigation	520 F. Supp. 2d 447	38
2007	Jewish Sephardic Yellow Pages, Ltd. v. DAG Media, Inc.	478 F. Supp. 2d 340	37
2003	Kittles Ex Rel. Lawton v. Barnhart	245 F. Supp. 2d 479	32
1997	Chinn v. City University of New York School of Law at Queens College	963 F. Supp. 218	30
1988	Matter of Shades of Beauty, Inc.	95 B.R. 17	27
1997	Worldwide Futgol Associates, Inc. v. Event Entertainment, Inc.	983 F. Supp. 173	26
1994	Microsoft Corp. v. Harmony Computers & Electronics, Inc.	846 F. Supp. 208	24
1990	National Union Fire Insurance v. Ambassador Group, Inc.	738 F. Supp. 57	23
1988	National Union Fire Insurance v. Ambassador Group, Inc.	691 F. Supp. 618	22
1994	Corporate Training Unlimited, Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co.	868 F. Supp. 501	21
2009	J&J Sports Productions, Inc. v. 291 Bar & Lounge, LLC	648 F. Supp. 2d 469	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Raymond Joseph Dearie?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Raymond Joseph Dearie to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 1986.
Was Raymond Joseph Dearie appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Raymond Joseph Dearie was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Raymond Joseph Dearie's confirmation vote?: Raymond Joseph Dearie was confirmed by voice vote on March 14, 1986. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Raymond Joseph Dearie on?: Raymond Joseph Dearie is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Sources

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40 years on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).