Warren William Eginton
Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and confirmed by voice vote, Warren William Eginton was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1951. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Lived
- 1924–2019
- Appointed by
- Jimmy Carter, 1979
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Princeton 1948 · Yale Law School 1951
- Succeeded by
- Robert N. Chatigny
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | District of Connecticut | Carter (D) | 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
| Princeton University | A.B. | 1948 |
| Yale Law School | LL.B. | 1951 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Eginton was assigned 3,866 district-court cases (1979–2023). Median time from filing to termination: 431 days across 3,860 closed cases.
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 114 of Eginton’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 84 were affirmed, 13 reversed or vacated, and 17 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, Eginton authored 290 published opinions for the court (1980–2010). Most cited: Mytych v. May Department Stores Co. (102 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Mytych v. May Department Stores Co. | 34 F. Supp. 2d 130 | 102 |
| 1997 | Cooke v. General Dynamics Corp. | 993 F. Supp. 56 | 34 |
| 1993 | Shield v. Bayliner Marine Corp. | 822 F. Supp. 81 | 29 |
| 1988 | Garfinkel v. Memory Metals, Inc. | 695 F. Supp. 1397 | 25 |
| 1980 | Crooker v. U. S. Department of Justice | 497 F. Supp. 500 | 25 |
| 1993 | Vorvis v. Southern New England Telephone Co. | 821 F. Supp. 851 | 23 |
| 1996 | Itoba Ltd. v. Lep Group PLC | 930 F. Supp. 36 | 21 |
| 1983 | Tarlov v. Paine Webber Cashfund, Inc. | 559 F. Supp. 429 | 20 |
| 2000 | Omnipoint Communications, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission of Wallinford | 83 F. Supp. 2d 306 | 18 |
| 1994 | Clark v. Auto Recovery Bureau Conn., Inc. | 889 F. Supp. 543 | 18 |
| 1981 | Medical Arts Pharmacy of Stamford, Inc. v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc. | 518 F. Supp. 1100 | 17 |
| 2007 | Chopra v. General Electric Co. | 527 F. Supp. 2d 230 | 16 |
| 1991 | Nabisco Brands, Inc. v. Kaye | 760 F. Supp. 25 | 16 |
| 1991 | Williams v. Avco Lycoming | 755 F. Supp. 47 | 16 |
| 2010 | United States Ex Rel. Drake v. NSI, Inc. | 736 F. Supp. 2d 489 | 15 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 290 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 Warren William Eginton?
- President Jimmy Carter appointed Warren William Eginton to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1979.
- Was Warren William Eginton appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Warren William Eginton was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Warren William Eginton's confirmation vote?
- Warren William Eginton was confirmed by voice vote on July 23, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court was Warren William Eginton on?
- Warren William Eginton was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources
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40 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).