{"id":4095,"date":"2024-10-23T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:54:12","slug":"jeremiah-j-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/judges\/jeremiah-j-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah J. McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2007 \u2013 present<\/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><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Federal Judicial Service:<\/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\">Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York.\u00a0 Entered duty on February 26, 2007, and reappointed to additional eight-year terms in 2015 and 2023.<\/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\">Education:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/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<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cornell Law School, J.D., 1978<\/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 Notre Dame, B.A., <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">magna cum laude<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 1974<\/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\">Private Practice, Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, New York, 1990-2007<\/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\">Private Practice, Moot &amp; Sprague, Buffalo, New York, 1978-1990<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Noteworthy Cases:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/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><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Businesses For A Better New York v. Angello, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, No. 1:06-CV-00669:<\/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\">Construction companies operating in the State of New York and others who claimed to be adversely affected by the operation of New York Labor Law \u00a7\u00a7240(1) and 241(6) (together, the \u201cScaffold Laws\u201d) brought suit challenging the Scaffold Laws\u2019 constitutionality.\u00a0 Judge McCarthy recommended that the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss the complaint be granted.\u00a0 Over objections, Judge McCarthy\u2019s recommendation was adopted by Judge Arcara, and was later affirmed by the Second Circuit.<\/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=\"none\">Businesses for a Better New York v. Angello<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, 2007 WL 2892615 (W.D.N.Y. 2007), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">aff\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, 341 F.\u202fApp\u2019x 701 (2d Cir. 2009)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. White<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 1:20-MJ-01174:<\/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\">Confronting an issue arising with more regularity, Judge McCarthy addressed the conflict between federal and New York State law on the legality of medical marijuana.\u00a0 Concluding that no prescription (either under New York State or federal law) can legally be made for the use of marijuana, a Schedule I controlled substance, he found that the defendant could not <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">possess or use marijuana without violating the conditions of his pretrial release.<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. White<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 597 F.\u202fSupp.\u202f3d 554 (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}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-white-2458\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-white-2458<\/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><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><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tann v. Bennett, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, No. 1:13-CV-00823:<\/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=\"none\">The petitioner, a citizen of the United Kingdom and resident of Northern Ireland, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">commenced an action pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (as implemented domestically by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act) seeking the return of her minor child to Northern Ireland.\u00a0 The petitioner alleged that Northern Ireland was the minor\u2019s habitual residence and that the respondent father had wrongfully retained the child in the United States in violation of petitioner\u2019s rights of custody.\u00a0 After a threeday evidentiary hearing that included testimony from the minor, Judge McCarthy dismissed the petition, ruling that the minor should continue to reside with the respondents (father and wife) pending a final custody determination by the courts of the State of New York. 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Bennett<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 648 F.\u202fApp\u2019x 146 (2d Cir. 2016)<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007 \u2013 present\u00a0 Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0 Magistrate Judge, U.S. District  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-judges","category-judges","category-magistrate-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}