Thomas O'Neill
| Thomas O'Neill | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #14 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 08/05/1983 - 07/05/1996 |
| Senior: | 07/06/1996 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Edward R. Becker |
| Succeeded by: | Petrese Tucker |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1928 |
| Home State: | Hanover, PA |
| Undergraduate: | Catholic U. of America, A.B., 1950 |
| Law School: | U. of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1953 |
| Military service: | U.S. Navy, Reserves 1948 - 1953 |
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Thomas O'Neill, Jr. is a federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 1983 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, O'Neill graduated from the Catholic University of America with his Bachelor' Degree in 1950 and later from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with his Law Degree in 1953. O'Neill served in the United States Navy Air Reserve from 1948 to 1953. [1]
Professional career
O'Neill was a law clerk for former Federal Appeals Judge Herbert Goodwich in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 1953 to 1954, and then again for Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton in the Supreme Court of the United States from 1954 to 1955. From 1955 to 1956, O'Neill was in private practice in Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1983.[1]
Judicial career
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
On the recommendation of Pennsylvania U.S. Senators John Heinz III and Arlen Specter, O'Neill was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President Ronald Reagan on June 21, 1983 to a seat vacated by Edward R. Becker. O'Neill was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 4, 1983 on a Senate vote and received commission on August 5, 1983. O'Neill assumed senior status in July 6, 1996.[1]
Notable cases
A notable case on this page needs to be updated.
FMLA case
Judge O'Neill is the presiding judge in a case involving the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 involving a employee who was wrongfully terminated.
Dmitry Narodetsky is suing Cardone Industries on claims that human resources staff illegally conducted a forensic search of his work computer as a reason to refuse time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act when he needed surgery.
The judge on February 24, 2010, refused a request from Cardone Industries attorneys to dismiss the case[2].
- CLICK HERE for the court's official opinion.
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Edward R. Becker |
Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1983–1996 Seat #14 |
Succeeded by: Petrese Tucker |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
