Harold Baer
| Harold Baer | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #22 |
| Station: | New York, NY |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 08/10/1994 - 09/07/2004 |
| Senior: | 09/08/2004 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Robert Sweet |
| Succeeded by: | Paul Crotty |
| Past post: | New York County Supreme Court, Justice |
| Past term: | 1982 - 1992 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1933 |
| Home State: | New York, NY |
| Bachelors: | Hobart College, B.A., 1954 |
| Law School: | Yale Law, LL.B., 1957 |
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Harold Baer is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He joined the court in 1994 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. In 2004, Baer took senior status on the court. [1]
Early life and education
Baer graduated from Hobart with his Bachelor's Degree in 1954 and later graduated from Yale Law with his Law Degree in 1957. [1]
Professional career
- 1994-present: Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- 1992-1994: Executive Judicial Officer, Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc.
- 1982-1992: Justice, Supreme Court 1st Judicial District
- 1974-1983: Adjunct professor, New York University Law School
- 1972-1982: Attorney, private practice
- 1970-1972: First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- 1968-1970: Attorney, private practice
- 1967-1968: Executive Director, Civilian Complaint Review Board
- 1961-1967: Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- 1960-1961: Assistant Counsel, Special Unit of the New York State Commission of Investigation
- 1959-1960: Assistant Counsel, New York State Commission on the Governmental Operations of the City of New York
- 1958-1959: Assistant to the General Counsel, Greater New York Mutual Insurance, Co.
Judicial career
Southern District of New York
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Monyihan Baer was nominated by President Bill Clinton on April 26, 1994 to a seat vacated by Robert Sweet as Sweet assumed senior status. Baer was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 9, 1994 on a majority voice vote and received commission on August 10, 1994[2]. Baer later assumed senior status on September 8, 2004.[1]
Notable cases
Harper's Bazaar wage suit
| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York *Wang v. Hearst Corporation 1:2012cv00793 |
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| U.S. District Judge Harold Baer presided over a minimum-wage violation case against Hearst Corporation's Harper's Bazaar, a major fashion magazine. In July, Judge Baer ruled that a federal lawsuit against the Hearst Corporation could go forward under the Fair Labor Standards Act on behalf of all unpaid interns who previously worked in the corporation’s magazines division. The suit was brought on behalf of Xuedan Wang, who was an unpaid intern at the magazine. Joined by almost 3,000 interns from other Hearst publications, the lawsuit was a class action suit.[3]
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Robert Sweet |
Southern District of New York 1994–2004 |
Succeeded by: Paul Crotty |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Loretta Preska • Kevin Castel • Paul Crotty • George Daniels • Paul Gardephe • Kenneth Karas • John Koeltl • Colleen McMahon • William Pauley • Cathy Seibel • Richard Sullivan • Laura Swain • Andrew L. Carter, Jr. • Nelson S. Roman • Analisa Torres • J. Paul Oetken • Vincent L. Briccetti • Paul A. Engelmayer • Alison J. Nathan • Edgardo Ramos • Katherine Forrest • Jesse Furman • Ronnie Abrams • Lorna Schofield • Katherine Failla | ||
| Senior judges |
Victor Marrero • Kimba Wood • Harold Baer • Deborah Batts • Richard Berman • Naomi Buchwald • Robert Lee Carter • Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum • Denise Cote • Thomas Griesa • Charles Haight • Alvin Hellerstein • Lewis Kaplan • John Keenan • Shirley Kram • Peter Leisure • Lawrence McKenna • Richard Owen • Robert Patterson • Jed Rakoff • Leonard Sand • Shira Scheindlin • Louis Stanton • Sidney Stein • Robert Sweet • Kevin Duffy • Gerard Goettel • | ||
| Magistrate judges | Henry Pitman • Michael Dolinger • Ronald Ellis • Kevin Fox • James Francis • Debra Freeman • Martin Goldberg • Gabriel Gorenstein • Frank Maas • Andrew Peck • Lisa Smith • George Yanthis • Paul Davison • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Morris Lasker • Denny Chin • William Conner • Richard Holwell • Barbara Jones • Gerard Lynch • Stephen Robinson • John Sprizzo • William Peter Van Ness • Samuel Rossiter Betts • Samuel Blatchford • Sonia Sotomayor • William Gardner Choate • Pierre Leval • Wilfred Feinberg • John Walker • Barrington Parker • Lawrence Pierce • Addison Brown • George Bethune Adams • George Chandler Holt • Charles Merrill Hough • Learned Hand • Julius Marshuetz Mayer • Augustus Noble Hand • John Clark Knox • Martin Thomas Manton • William Bondy • Henry Warren Goddard • Francis Asbury Winslow • Frank Joseph Coleman • Thomas Day Thacher • Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr. • John Munro Woolsey • George Murray Hulbert • John William Clancy • Vincent Leibell • Samuel Mandelbaum • Edward Conger • Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. • Charles Metzner • Arnold Bauman • Alexander Bicks • Dudley Bonsal • Charles Brieant • John Bright • Vincent Broderick • Frederick Bryan • Francis Caffey • John Cannella • Richard Casey • John Cashin • Kenneth Conboy • Irving Cooper • Thomas Croake • Richard Daronco • Archie Dawson • Edward Dimock • David Edelstein • Marvin Frankel • Louis Freeh • Lee Gagliardi • Murray Gurfein • William Herlands • Irving Kaufman • Samuel Kaufman • Percy Knapp • Richard Levet • Mary Lowe • Lloyd MacMahon • Walter Mansfield • John McGohey • Edward McLean • Harold Medina • Constance Motley • Thomas Murphy • Gregory Noonan • Edmund Palmieri • Milton Pollack • Simon Rifkind • Sylvester Ryan • Allen Schwartz • Abraham Sofaer • Charles Stewart • Sidney Sugarman • Charles Tenney • Harold Tyler • Lawrence Walsh • Robert Ward • Edward Weinfeld • Henry Werker • Inzer Wyatt • John S. Martin • John S. Martin, Jr. • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Kimba Wood • Andrew Peck • Lisa Smith • John Clark Knox • William Bondy • John William Clancy • Charles Brieant • David Edelstein • Lloyd MacMahon • Constance Motley • Sylvester Ryan • Sidney Sugarman • | ||
