Charles C. Goetsch - New Haven, CT

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
    LL.M., Master of Law(s)
  • University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1976
    J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
    Honors: Editor, University of Connecticut Law Review

• Non Legal Education

  • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1973
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Phi Beta Kappa

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Law Clerk, United States Circuit Court Judge Leonard P. Moore, 1979 - 1980
• Law Clerk, United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns, 1978 - 1979

Languages

• English (Primary)

Classes and Seminars

• Faculty, "Second Circuit Practice & Procedures: Doing It Right", Connecticut Bar Association CLE Program, 1998
  
• Faculty, "Civil Federal Practice Seminar", Connecticut Bar Association Annual Meeting, 1996

Pro Bono Activities

• President, Thimble Islands Ferry District, 2011 - Present
• Coordinator, Metro North Railroad Labor Coalition, 1983 - 2003
• Trustee, Hopkins School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1994 - 2004
• Elected Member, Board Selectmen, Town of Woodbridge, CT, 1997 - 2001

Representative Clients

• IBEW - Railroad Division

• Qui Tam Relators

• Whistleblowers

• Injured Railroad Workers

Representative Cases

• Metro-North Commuter R.R. v. Buckley
  • Citation: 521 U.S. 424
  • Court: U.S. Supreme Court
  • Year: 1997
• Millea v. Metro-North Rail Road
  • Citation: 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 16354
  • Court: 2nd Circuit
  • Year: 2011
• Araujo v. New Jersey Transit Rail
  • Citation: 708 F.3d 152
  • Court: 3rd Circuit
  • Year: 2013
• Barati v. Metro North Rail Road
  • Citation: 2013 WL 1192622
  • Court: D. Conn.
  • Year: 2013
• Schneider v. National R.R. Passenger Corp.
  • Citation: 854 F.2d 14
  • Court: C.A.2 (Conn.)
  • Year: 1988
  • Serial Number: 1988103766
• Nairn v. National R.R. Passenger Corp.
  • Citation: 837 F.2d 565
  • Court: C.A.2 (Conn.)
  • Year: 1988
  • Serial Number: 1988013023
• DeChico v. Metro-North Commuter R.R.
  • Citation: 758 F.2d 856
  • Court: C.A.2 (Conn.)
  • Year: 1985
  • Serial Number: 1985117479
• Farley v. Metro-North Commuter R.R.
  • Citation: 865 F.2d 33
  • Court: C.A.2 (N.Y.)
  • Year: 1989
  • Serial Number: 1989007678
• Brady v. National R.R. Passenger Corp.
  • Citation: 714 F.Supp. 601
  • Court: D.Conn.
  • Year: 1989
  • Serial Number: 1989091306

Published Works

Articles

• Essays on Simeon E. Baldwin, 1981
  
• Introduction to Symposium on the New Federalism 56 Connecticut Bar Journal 186, 1982
  
• Parody as Free Speech The Replacement of the Fair Use Doctrine By First Amendment, Protection 3 Western New England Law Review 39, 1980
  
• Remembering a Wondrous Whale, New York Times, Sunday Edition, May 18, 1986
  
• A History of the New Haven Federal Courthouse, 59 Connecticut Bar Journal, 380, 1985
  
• (ed.), The Autobiography of Thomas L. Chadbourne, 1985
• The Future of Legal Formalism, 24 American Journal of Legal History 221, 1980
• Dying Declarations: Connecticut Common Law and the New Federal Rules of Evidence, 50 Connecticut Bar Journal 201, 1975
• Comment, Conservation Restrictions: A Survey, 8 Connecticut Law Review 383, 1976
• A History of the First One Hundred Years of the Connecticut Association: 1875-1975, 49 Connecticut Bar Journal 201, 1975
• The Immigrant and America: Assimilation of a German Family, 42 Annals of Iowa 15-27, 114-25, 1973

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Northern District of New York

Other Affiliations

• Taxpayers Against Fraud
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association
• Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys, 1985 - Present
• Connecticut Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• American Bar Foundation Fellow
• Connecticut Bar Association, 1990 - 1993 (Chairman, Federal Practice Section)
• Civil Justice Advisory Group for District of Connecticut, 1991 - 1993 (Chairman)
• International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• The Second Circuit Committee on History and Commemorative Events, 1995 - 1997 (Member (appointed by Chief Judge))
• Legal History Committee, Connecticut Bar Association, 1996 - 2006 (Chairman)
• Connecticut Bar Journal, 1985 - 1995 (Editor-at-Large)