Background
Meyer, Bernard Stern was born on June 7, 1916 in Baltimore. Son of Benjamin and Josephine Meyer.
(Judicial Retirement Laws of the Fifty States and the Dist...)
Judicial Retirement Laws of the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, the first comprehensive work on the subject, brings together a complete survey of existing judicial retirement laws in all fifty-one jurisdictions. Using appropriate constitutional and statutory citations, Bernard S. Meyer identifies, in each jurisdiction, provisions for mandatory retirement on account of age, for retirment for disability (voluntary and involuntary), as well as for further judicial service after retirement. This work also suggests how these laws should be changed for the improvement, and the interest, of justice.
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Meyer, Bernard Stern was born on June 7, 1916 in Baltimore. Son of Benjamin and Josephine Meyer.
Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Science, 1936). University of Maryland at Baltimore (Bachelor of Laws, 1938). Hofstra University (Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, 1980).
Western State University (1982).
Albany Law School of Union University (1984).
Worked at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, Professional Corporation (Mineola, New York) specializing in Appeals, Mediation and Arbitration, Municipal Agencies, Real Estate, Expert Witness. Admitted to the bar, 1938, Maryland and United States. District Court, District of Maryland.
1947, District of Columbia and New New York
1949, United States. District Court, Southern District of New New York 1976, United States. Supreme Court.
Omicron Delta Kappa. Order of the Coif, Scribes.
Recipient: Hofstra University Presidential Award, 1987. Distinguished Service Medallion, Bar Association of Nassau County, 1982.
Saint John"s Law Society Award, 1971. Long Island Press Distinguished Award, 1969.
Chairman, Editorial Board, University of Maryland Law Review, 1937-1938.
Author: "Fair Trial Free Press - The Judge"s View," 41 North.D.L.R. 14, 1964. "Recognition of Exchange Controls After the International Monetary Fund Agreement," 62 Yale Lord Justice 867, 1953. "The Expert Witness: Some Proposals for Change," 45 Saint Johns L.R. 105, 1970.
"Developing Pattern Jury Instructions: The New York Experience," 73 Case & Comment 42, 1968.
"Zoning Procedure: A Suggestion for Revision," 34 NYSBJ 350, 1962. "Trial Observations," 12 The Nassau Lawyer 3, 1965.
"Justice, Bureaucracy, Structure and Simplification," 42 Doctor of Medicine LR 659, 1983. "Criminal Leave Applications: The Defense Point of View," 9 The Defender, Number.
1, 27, 1987; "Taking an Appeal to the Court of Appeals," NYLJ 9/15, 9/18/89, P. 1, Colonel 1.
"The Use of Cameras in Trial Court, 52 NYSBJ 631, 1980. Company-Author: with Professor Maurice Rosenberg, "Questions Juries Ask: Untapped Springs of Insight," 55 Judicature 105, 1971. With Professor Stephen West. Schlissel, "Child Custody: How Grasp the Nettle," 54 NYSBJ 496, 55 NYSBJ 39, 1982.
Special Counsel, Commission to Study Workmen"s Compensation Administration and Costs, 1955-1958.
Justice, Supreme Court of New York State, 1959-1972. Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals, 1979-1986.
Chairperson, Task Force on Permanency Planning for Foster Children, 1987-1991. Member: Governor"s Commission on Government Integrity, 1987-1990.
Permanent Commission on Justice for Children, 1988-1990.
Chairman, New York Pattern Jury Instruction (Civil) Committee, 1962-1979. Chairman, National Conference of State Trial Judges, 1970-1971. President, Association of Justices of the Supreme Court, 1970-1971.
Member, Advisory Committee Joint Legislative Committee on Matrimonial Law, 1962-1967.
Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Law Revision Commission with respect to the Proposed Code of Evidence for New York, 1977-1978. Member, Board of Directors: National Center for State Courts, 1970-1971.
National College of the State Judiciary, Reno, Nevada, 1968-1974. President, Health and Welfare Council, Nassau County, 1963-1964.
Member, American Jewish Congress National Advisory Board Commission on Law and Social Action, 1970-1974.
Special Deputy Attorney General, New York, in charge of Special Attica Investigation, 1975. Member, Coalition for Effective Government, 1991. Member, Committee for Modern Courts, 1987.
Founder, New York Fair Trial Free Press Conference, 1986.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chairman, Committees on Matrimonial Law, Library, Election Laws). Nassau County, New York State (Chairman, Judicial Section, Founder, Council of Judicial Associations.
Member, Committee on Legislative Policy) and American (Member, Advisory Committee on Fair Trial and Free Press) Bar Associations. Nassau County Lawyers Association.
American Law Institute.
American Judicature Society. Institute of Judicial Administration. Fellow: American Bar Foundation.
New York Bar Foundation.
American College of Trial Lawyers. American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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Member: Governor"s Commission on Government Integrity, 1987-1990. Permanent Commission on Justice for Children, 1988-1990. Chairman, New York Pattern Jury Instruction (Civil) Committee, 1962-1979.
Chairman, National Conference of State Trial Judges, 1970-1971.
President, Association of Justices of the Supreme Court, 1970-1971. Member, Advisory Committee Joint Legislative Committee on Matrimonial Law, 1962-1967.
Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Law Revision Commission with respect to the Proposed Code of Evidence for New York, 1977-1978. Member, Board of Directors: National Center for State Courts, 1970-1971.
National College of the State Judiciary, Reno, Nevada, 1968-1974.
President, Health and Welfare Council, Nassau County, 1963-1964. Member, American Jewish Congress National Advisory Board Commission on Law and Social Action, 1970-1974. Special Deputy Attorney General, New York, in charge of Special Attica Investigation, 1975.
Member, Coalition for Effective Government, 1991.
Member, Committee for Modern Courts, 1987. Founder, New York Fair Trial Free Press Conference, 1986.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chairman, Committees on Matrimonial Law, Library, Election Laws). Nassau County, New York State (Chairman, Judicial Section, Founder, Council of Judicial Associations.
Member, Committee on Legislative Policy) and American (Member, Advisory Committee on Fair Trial and Free Press) Bar Associations.
Nassau County Lawyers Association. American Law Institute. American Judicature Society.
Institute of Judicial Administration.
Fellow: American Bar Foundation. New York Bar Foundation.
American College of Trial Lawyers. American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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Married Elaine Strass, June 25, 1939 (divorced). Children: Patricia, Susan. Married Edythe Birnbaum, April 18, 1975.
Married Hortense Fox, October 29, 1991.