{"id":3757,"date":"2024-03-01T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:36:33","slug":"frank-p-geraci-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/judges\/frank-p-geraci-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank P. Geraci, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2013 \u2013 present<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Federal Judicial Service:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 14, 2012, to a seat vacated by Hon. David G. Larimer.\u00a0 Confirmed by the Senate on December 13, 2012, and received commission on January 2, 2013.\u00a0 Served as Chief Judge, 2015-2021.\u00a0 Assumed senior status on April 1, 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Education:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">University of Dayton Law School, J.D., 1977<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">University of Dayton, B.A., 1973<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professional Career:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Monroe County Court Judge, Rochester, New York, 1999-2012<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">City Court Judge, Rochester, New York, 1992-1998<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Private Practice, Geraci &amp; Feldman, Rochester, New York, 1987-1992<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of New York, 1983-1987<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Special Assistant District Attorney, Monroe County, New York, 1978-1983<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Noteworthy Cases:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. James Kendrick, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:10-CR-06096:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this multi-defendant, decades-long drug conspiracy, it was alleged that defendant James Kendrick, with the help of others, operated a continuing criminal enterprise that peddled cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, and marijuana in the Rochester area.\u00a0 Kendrick was implicated in the deaths of four individuals.\u00a0 One was an acquaintance who was beaten, stabbed, and buried alive on an Indian reservation after allegedly stealing from the enterprise.\u00a0 Another was beaten to death and dismembered \u2013 his remains scattered throughout Rochester \u2013 after the conspirators became fearful he might talk to police.\u00a0 Kendrick was convicted and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment plus thirty years, which was affirmed on appeal, and his collateral challenges were subsequently rejected.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kendrick v. United States<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 2023 WL 3878327 (W.D.N.Y. 2023), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">appeal dismissed<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 23-6748, ECF No. 38 (2d Cir. 2024)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/kendrick-v-united-states-30\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/kendrick-v-united-states-30<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emilee Carpenter, LLC, et al. v. James, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:21-CV-06303:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plaintiff Emilee Carpenter, a professional wedding photographer, brought this civil rights action, alleging that New York\u2019s public-accommodation laws violated her First Amendment rights insofar as they compelled her to provide services for same-sex weddings.\u00a0 In dismissing her First Amendment and due-process challenges, Judge Geraci emphasized the principle of inherent equality on which the United States was founded, and the historical process by which that principle has been extended to previously underserved, disfavored, or disadvantaged classes of persons.\u00a0 Access to the public marketplace is one arena in which that process has unfolded.\u00a0 By ensuring equal access to public goods and services, public accommodation laws ensure that private discrimination in the marketplace cannot be used to \u201cperpetuate a caste system in the United States,\u201d as Justice Goldberg wrote.\u00a0 Plaintiff\u2019s theory, which would have had the effect of relegating same-sex couples to an inferior market whenever the goods or services were expressive, was rejected.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emilee Carpenter, LLC v. James<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 575 F.\u202fSupp.\u202f3d 353 (W.D.N.Y. 2021)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/emilee-carpenter-llc-v-james\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/emilee-carpenter-llc-v-james<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Carlos Javier Figueroa, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:18-CR-06094:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carlos Javier Figueroa was alleged to be the leader of a drug-trafficking organization based in Rochester.\u00a0 The organization coordinated the shipment of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Rochester via the postal service and was responsible for multiple acts of violence, including three murders.\u00a0 Figueroa was convicted and sentenced after jury trial to a term of life imprisonment plus 25 years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Panarra v. HTC Corp.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:20-CV-06991:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A deaf individual brought suit against a virtual-reality subscription service, alleging that its failure to provide closed captioning for its service violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u00a0 In a reported decision, Judge Geraci concluded that the ADA applied to the service, notwithstanding its lack of a physical storefront.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Panarra v. HTC Corp.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 598 F.\u202fSupp.\u202f3d 73 (W.D.N.Y. 2022)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/panarra-v-htc-corp-1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/panarra-v-htc-corp-1<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 \u2013 present\u00a0 Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0 Judge, U.S. District Court,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-judges","category-district-judges","category-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}