Nearly three years after he was first nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by then-President Barack Obama, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Brown has been renominated, this time by President Donald Trump.
Magistrate Judge Brown has been one of three magistrate judges handling Superstorm Sandy cases in the Eastern District of New York. In November 2014, Magistrate Judge Brown, citing “startling findings” of “reprehensible gamesmanship by a professional engineering company that unjustly frustrated efforts by two homeowners to get fair consideration of their claim” following Superstorm Sandy – and evidence that “these unprincipled practices may be widespread” and may have similarly affected “hundreds” and “possibly more” Sandy flood insurance claims – sanctioned an insurer and its counsel, and significantly broadened discovery in all Sandy cases in the district.
The Senate failed to act on Magistrate Judge Brown's previous district court nomination.
Magistrate Judge Brown has been a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York since 2011.
From 2005 to 2011, Magistrate Judge Brown worked at CA Technologies, where he served as senior counsel, associate general counsel, and director for litigation, and then chief compliance officer and chief counsel of litigation.
From 1996 to 2005, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Long Island Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was elevated to deputy chief in 2001 and chief in 2003.
From 1989 to 1996, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division, where he also served as Affirmative Litigation Coordinator from 1994 to 1996.
Magistrate Judge Brown began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Jacob Mishler of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1988 to 1989. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1988 and his A.B. cum laude from Columbia College in 1985.
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