Patti B. Saris
b. 1951 · Boston, MA
Judicial Service
| Court | Title | Appointed By | Commissioned | Termination |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts | Judge | William J. Clinton (Democratic) | Nov 24, 1993 | — |
Education
- Radcliffe College, B.A., 1973
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1976
Professional Career
Law clerk, Hon. Robert Braucher, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1976-1977; Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977-1979, 1981-1982; Staff counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1979-1981; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1982-1986; chief, Civil Division, 1984-1986; Associate justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1989-1993; Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2010-2017
Other Federal Judicial Service
- U.S. Magistrate, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1986-1989
Opinions on This Site
80 opinions from 1995 to 2012
- United States v. General Electric Co. 2012
- T-Peg, Inc. v. Vermont Timber Works, Inc. 2012
- Farris v. Shinseki 2011
- United States v. Collazo-Castro 2011
- Officemax, Inc. v. Levesque 2011
- Decky v. Holder 2009
- United States v. Villar 2009
- Smith v. Pritchett (In Re Smith) 2009
- Baldwin v. Bader 2009
- Cook v. Gates 2008
- Local 791, United Food & Commercial Workers Union v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. 2007
- Johansen v. United States 2007
- United States v. Cadieux 2007
- United States v. Shelton 2007
- Bianchi v. United States 2007
- Israel Bio-Engineering Project v. Amgen Inc. 2007
- Andersen Corp. v. Fiber Composites, LLC 2007
- Kim v. Gonzales 2006
- Von Muller v. Department of Energy 2006
- In re Hardy 2006
- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc. 2006
- Beaudoin v. Department of Veterans Affairs 2006
- Prima Tek II, L.L.C. v. Klerk's Flexible Packaging BV 2006
- Baro v. Nicholson 2006
- Penney-Guzman v. Social Security Administration 2006
- Stoller v. Sutech u.s.a., Inc. 2006
- Lee v. Department of the Army 2006
- Kandamar v. Gonzales 2006
- United States v. Colon-Nales 2006
- United States v. Potter 2006
- United States v. One Star Class Sloop Sailboat 2006
- Santiago-Díaz v. Laboratorio Clínico Y De Referencia Del Este 2006
- De Leon v. Gonzales 2005
- Puerto Rico Hospital Supply, Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corp. 2005
- United States v. Donald Syphers 2005
- United States v. Bradley 2005
- Diálogo, LLC v. Santiago-Bauzá 2005
- United States v. Perez-Ruiz 2005
- Norton v. McOsker 2005
- Delvin White v. Jane Coplan, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison 2005
- United States v. Bradley 2004
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England v. Heed 2004
- United States v. Cordoza-Estrada 2004
- Reynolds-Naughton v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. 2004
- American Cyanamid Co v. A. Capuano Brothers 2004
- Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island 2004
- Howard v. Antilla 2002
- Gillen v. Fallon Ambulance Service, Inc. 2002
- United States v. Donald Woodward 2002
- United States v. Diehl 2002
- Richard H. Hatch, Jr. v. Department for Children, Youth and Their Families (State of Rhode Island), Steven Brown and Mary McKee Proposed 2001
- Maher v. Hyde 2001
- Morrissette v. Matesanz 2001
- United States v. Gomez-Estrada 2001
- Pabon Rodriguez v. Lee 2001
- Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America v. Concannon 2001
- Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. v. Todd 2001
- Snyder v. Rockland Trust Co. 2001
- Roberts v. State of Rhode Islan 2001
- Pye v. Excel Case Ready 2001
- Karen Romano v. U-Haul International, U-Haul Company of Maine, Inc. 2000
- American Honda Motor Co. v. Bernardi's, Inc. 2000
- American Honda Motor Co. v. Bernardi's, Inc. 2000
- American Honda Motor Co. v. Bernardi's, Inc. 1999
- Hollingsworth & Vose Co. v. A-P-A Transportation Corp. 1998
- United States v. Morillo 1998
- Hernandez-Torres v. Intercontinental Trading, Inc. 1998
- Bruce H. KING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWN OF HANOVER, Defendant-Appellee 1997
- Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. Tax Assessor, Maine 1997
- Concordia Co. v. Panek 1997
- Bankr. L. Rep. P 77,385 Robert D. MacY v. Anna Lowell MacY 1997
- The International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Afl-Cio v. Winship Green Nursing Center 1996
- Ollie LATTIMORE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. POLAROID CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant 1996
- Borschow Hospital & Medical Supplies, Inc. v. Cesar Castillo Inc. 1996
- Hachikian v. Federal Deposit Insurance 1996
- United States v. Bennett 1996
- United States v. Gary 1996
- United States v. Perez Perez 1995
- Andre Grenier v. Cyanamid Plastics, Inc. 1995
- In Re Derald E. Young and Mary P. Young, Debtors. Derald E. Young and Mary P. Young v. Key Bank of Maine 1995