Edgardo Ramos at a glance
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Edgardo Ramos
Judge · U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Service record and verification
Judicial service and assignments
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York · Judge · Active · December 6, 2011–present · Assignment source ↗
Appointment and verification
- Appointment method
- Presidential appointment with Senate confirmation
- Appointing authority
- Barack Obama
- Source authority
- Federal Judicial Center Biographical Directory
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Biography
Professional career
- Judge, District Court, S.D. New York, 2011-present
- United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Barack Obama on December 6, 2011 to fill the seat vacated by Stephen C. Robinson
- 2002–2011: Partner at Day Pitney LLP; also held the role of a commissioner on the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1992-2002
- Current role: Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Courtroom 619, Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY
Education
- Harvard University — J.D. (1987)
- Harvard Law School in — J.D. (1987)
- Yale University — B.A. (1982)
Additional information
- Private practice, New York City, 2002-2011
- Private practice, New York City, 1987-1992
- Ramos was born in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and moved as a child with his mother and six siblings to Newark, New Jersey.
- Date of birth: 1960-01-01
- Ramos has been active in the New York City Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, and Puerto Rican Bar Association of New York City
- Birth place: Ponce
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures
Remote appearances
Courtwide
In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards.
For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location.Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗
Recording and broadcasting
Courtwide
Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception.
Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗
Published courtroom rules
Judge and named-part rules
Published judge / part rules (52 excerpts)
See document heading and cited passage; do not apply outside the issuing part or proceeding.
Official rules document ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27
Communications with chambers
A. Letters. Except as otherwise provided below, communications with chambers shall be by letter, filed electronically via ECF. Letters seeking relief should be filed as letter-motions in accordance with Section 1.E below. Letters between or among counsel shall not be filed on ECF or otherwise sent to the Court (except as exhibits to an otherwise properly filed document).
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Letters to be filed under seal shall follow the procedure for Electronic Filing Under Seal in Civil and Miscellaneous Cases in accordance with Section 3 of this document.
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Parties shall not submit courtesy copies of letters that are filed as described above.
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B. Telephone Calls. Except as provided below, telephone calls to chambers are permitted only in situations requiring immediate attention.
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C. Faxes and E-mails. Faxes to chambers are not permitted. Except as otherwise provided in Section 1.A. above, if a party wishes to e-mail a .pdf document to the Court, it must obtain prior permission. E-mails should indicate who in chambers provided such permission, and must be copied to all counsel. If a document is e-mailed to chambers, do NOT also send a hard copy.
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E. Requests for Adjournments or Extensions of Time. All requests for adjournments or extensions of time shall be in writing and filed on ECF as letter- motions (if consistent with the S.D.N.Y. Local Rules and the S.D.N.Y.
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ii. the number of previous requests for adjournment or extension, and the reason(s) therefor;
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If the requested adjournment or extension affects any other scheduled dates, a proposed Revised Scheduling Order must be attached. Absent extraordinary circumstances, requests for extensions will be denied if not made before the expiration of the original deadline. If the request is for an adjournment of a court appearance, absent an emergency, the request shall be made at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled appearance. Requests for extensions of deadlines regarding a matter that has been referred to a Magistrate Judge shall be directed to that assigned Magistrate Judge.
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F. Proposed Orders and Stipulations. All proposed orders, judgments and stipulations requiring the Court’s signature, must be filed electronically on the court’s ECF system.
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G. Courtesy Copies. One courtesy hard copy of all motion papers (with the exception of motions for admission pro hac vice and letter-motions), shall be submitted to chambers as soon as practicable after filing. Courtesy copies should be clearly marked as such. If hand-delivered, courtesy copies should be brought to the Court Security Officers at the Worth Street entrance to 500 Pearl Street, not to chambers.
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PLEASE NOTE: If a courtesy copy of a document filed on ECF is not delivered to chambers, it may not come to the Court’s attention in a timely manner.
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Whenever possible, the courtesy hard copy should be accompanied by an electronic copy submitted on any portable media (CD/DVD preferred).
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i. For discovery motions, follow Local Civil Rule 37.2, requiring the moving party to request an informal conference with the Court before the filing of any such motion. Strict adherence to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a)(1), the “meet and confer” rule, is required. The parties should be prepared to describe the time, place, and duration of the meeting, and to identify the counsel involved.
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ii. A pre-motion conference with the Court is required before making any other motion, except where a litigant believes that delay in filing the motion might result in the loss of a right or where a litigant seeks to make a motion in a case involving an incarcerated pro se litigant, motion for admission pro hac vice, motion for reargument or reconsideration, or motion for temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. To arrange a pre-motion conference, the moving party shall submit a letter, not to exceed three pages, setting forth the basis for the anticipated motion. The opposing party shall submit a letter, also not to exceed three pages, setting forth its position within three business days from the service of the moving party’s letter. If a pre-motion conference is requested in connection with proposed motion to dismiss, the request will stay the deadline for the requesting party to move or answer, and a new deadline will be set at the conference.
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i. Unless prior permission has been granted, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 25 pages, and reply memoranda are limited to 10 pages. Memoranda of 10 pages or more shall contain a table of contents. All memoranda of law shall be in 12- point font or larger and be double-spaced, and shall have one inch margins on all sides. Unless prior permission has been granted, sur-reply memoranda will not be accepted.
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ii. All documents submitted in connection with motions must be bound in any manner that is secure, does not obscure the text, and permits the document to lie reasonably flat when open. Parties should submit multiple volumes rather than large documents that do not lie reasonably flat when open.
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i. Except for pro se litigants, the moving party shall provide all other parties with an electronic copy of the moving party’s Statement of Material Facts pursuant to Local Civil Rule 56.1. Opposing parties must reproduce each entry in the moving party’s Rule 56.1 Statement, and set out the opposing party’s response directly beneath it.
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ii. With respect to any deposition transcript that is supplied, whether in whole or in part, in connection with a summary judgment motion, the index to the deposition should be included if it is available.
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iii. Except for pro se litigants, the parties shall provide the Court with an electronic, text-searchable courtesy copy of any hearing or deposition transcript, or a portion thereof, on which the parties rely, if such a copy is available, unless doing so would be unduly burdensome. (Parties shall provide these materials on a CD only, not on a DVD or memory stick and not by e-mail.)
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i. Sealing/Redactions Not Requiring Court Approval. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 describes sensitive information that must be redacted from public court filings without seeking prior permission from the Court.
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ii. Sealing/Redaction Requiring Court Approval. Motions or Letter Motions for approval of sealed or redacted filings in civil and miscellaneous cases and the subject documents, including the proposed sealed document(s), must be filed electronically through the court's ECF system in conformity with the court's standing order, 19-mc-00583, and ECF Rules & Instructions, section 6.
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The motion must be filed in public view, must explain the particular reasons for seeking to file that information under seal and should not include confidential information sought to be filed under seal. Supporting papers must be separately filed electronically and may be filed under seal or redacted only to the extent necessary to safeguard information sought to be filed under seal.
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The proposed sealed document must be contemporaneously filed under seal in the ECF system and electronically related to the motion. The summary docket text, but not the sealed document, will be open to public inspection and should not include confidential information sought to be filed under seal.
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Where the motion seeks approval to redact information from a document that is to be publicly filed, the filing party shall: (a) publicly file the document with the proposed redactions, and (b) electronically file under seal a copy of the unredacted document with the proposed redactions highlighted. Both documents must be electronically filed through the ECF system and related to the motion.
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Any party unable to comply with the requirement for electronic filing under seal through the ECF system, or who has reason to believe that a particular document should not be electronically filed, must move for leave of the Court to file in the traditional manner, on paper.
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A. Joint pretrial statements in Civil Cases. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, within 30 days after the date for completion of discovery in a civil case, or, if a dispositive motion has been filed, within 30 days after a decision on the
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motion, the parties shall file a joint pretrial statement, with one courtesy hard copy for chambers.
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The joint pretrial statement shall include the information required by Fed. R. Civ.
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vi. A statement as to whether all parties have consented to trial of the case by a magistrate judge (without identifying which parties have or have not so consented).
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B. Filings Prior to Trial in Civil Cases. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, each party shall file the following documents, and submit two courtesy hard copies to chambers, 15 days before the date of commencement of trial if such a date has been fixed, or 30 days after the filing of the joint pretrial statement if no
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i. In jury cases, proposed voir dire questions, requests to charge, verdict form, and all documentary exhibits and depositions excerpts that will be offered as substantive evidence. The plaintiff’s proposed voir dire questions should include an agreed upon paragraph (designated as such) for the Court to use in voir dire to provide the jury panel with a brief explanation of the case. If the parties cannot agree to a paragraph after good faith efforts, their respective proposed paragraphs (designated as such) should be set for in their respective voir dire submissions. In addition to being filed in the normal manner, proposed jury instructions should be e-mailed to Judge Ramos’ law clerk.
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Counsel should send an email to chambers to make arrangements for same. Each proposed jury instruction must contain a citation to the source/authority for the proposed instruction, or the request will be disregarded.
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ii. In nonjury cases, proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Proposed findings of fact should be detailed, and proposed conclusions of law should include a statement of the elements of each claim or defense.
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iii. In all cases, motions addressing any evidentiary or other issues that should be resolved in limine; and
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C. Filings in Opposition. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, any party may file, and submit one courtesy hard copy to chambers, the following documents
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D. Additional Submissions in Non-Jury Cases. At the time the joint pretrial statement is filed, each party shall serve, but not file, the following documents,
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i. Affidavits constituting the direct testimony of each trial witness, except for the testimony of an adverse witness for whom a party has requested and the Court has agreed to hear direct testimony during the trial. Three business days after submission of such affidavits, counsel for each party shall submit a list of all affiants whom he or she intends to cross-examine at trial. Only those witnesses who will be cross-examined need appear at trial. The original affidavit shall be marked as an exhibit at trial.
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5. Post-Trial Procedures. Counsel are responsible for raising promptly any issue concerning the accuracy of transcripts certified by the Court Reporter to be used for purposes of appeal. Counsel perceiving an error that is material shall stipulate to the appropriate correction or, if agreement cannot be reached, shall proceed by motion on notice. Non-material defects in syntax, grammar, spelling or punctuation should be ignored.
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6. Default Judgments. A party that wishes to obtain a default judgment must proceed by way of order to show cause. Follow the Default Judgment Procedure, attached hereto as Attachment A.
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7. Bankruptcy Appeals. Briefs must be submitted in accordance with Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure 8014 through 8018. Counsel may extend the dates provided therein by stipulation submitted to the Court no later than two business days before the brief is due. The page limits in Rule 7.1(c) of the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York must be observed.
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A. Initial Matters. Upon assignment of a criminal case to Judge Ramos, the parties shall immediately arrange with the Courtroom Deputy for a prompt initial conference, at which the defendant will be present. The Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) shall provide to chambers, as soon as practicable, a courtesy copy of the Indictment or Information, and a courtesy copy of the Complaint, if one exists.
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The AUSA shall provide a courtesy copy of any plea agreement or related documents to chambers as soon as practicable.
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9. Encouraged Participation of Junior Members of Legal Teams. Due to the decline of trials, opportunities to train junior lawyers in courtroom skills have become increasingly rare. Accordingly, where junior lawyers are familiar with the matter under consideration, but are not experienced in arguing before a court, they should be encouraged to actively participate. In such circumstances, where it creates an opportunity for a junior lawyer to argue, this Court is amenable to permitting more than one lawyer to argue for one party.
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5. Prior to the return date, file the affidavit of service on the defendant of a conformed copy of the Order. For ECF cases, the affidavit of service must be filed electronically on the ECF system.
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Unless permission to the contrary has been obtained, every document in a sentencing submission, including letters, should be filed in the public record, either in paper form or through the ECF system, using the procedures described below. The defendant is responsible for filing all letters submitted on behalf of the defendant, including those from friends, relatives, etc. The Government is responsible for filing all letters from victims.
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In this regard, the parties are referred to E-Government Act of 2002 and the Southern District’s ECF Rules & Instructions, Section 21, Privacy and Public Access to ECF cases, (“Privacy Policy”) and reminded not, unless necessary, to include the five categories of “sensitive information” in their submissions (i.e., social security numbers;
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names of minor children [use the initials only]; dates of birth [use the year only]; financial account numbers; and home addresses [use only the city and state]). Parties may redact the five categories of “sensitive information” and the six categories of information requiring caution (i.e., personal identifying numbers; medical records, treatment and diagnosis; employment history; individual financial information;
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proprietary or trade secret information; and information regarding an individual’s cooperation with the government) as described in the Privacy Policy, without application to the Court. If any material is redacted from the publicly filed document, only those pages containing the redacted material will be filed under seal. Bring a copy of those pages to the sentencing proceeding, marked to indicate what information has been redacted from the publicly filed materials, to give to the Court for filing under seal.
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1. A defendant’s sentencing submission shall be served two weeks in advance of the date set for sentence. The Government’s sentencing submission shall be served one week in advance of the date set for sentence. The parties should provide the Court with one courtesy copy of each submission when it is served. At the time it is served, a party shall file its sentencing submission following one of the two procedures described here.
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A. Paper Filing. If the case is not electronically filed, letters must be filed as hard copies. A party shall group all letters together in a single paper filing under a cover marked SENTENCING MEMORANDUM with the caption and docket number clearly indicated and submit it to the Clerk’s Office.
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B. ECF Filing. If the case is electronically filed, letters must be electronically filed on the ECF system. A party shall group and file the letters together as attachments to a single document marked SENTENCING MEMORANDUM with the caption and docket number clearly indicated.
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2. If a party redacts information beyond the eleven categories of information identified in the Privacy Policy, an application to do so must be served and filed at the time the sentencing submission is served. The application should clearly identify the redaction
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SDNY and EDNY — Joint Local Civil and Criminal Rules
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Federal district-court proceedings only. Civil and criminal sections have distinct scope and district-specific exceptions. Not Bankruptcy Court rules.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Civil actions in United States District Courts; Rule 81 exceptions apply. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Sources
Identity source checked July 25, 2026.
Biography sources checked August 2, 2026.
Federal Judicial Center biography
Identity source · HTML · Federal Judicial Center Biographical Directory · effective December 6, 2011 · Source checked July 25, 2026
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Identity source · HTML · CourtListener / Free Law Project · Source checked August 2, 2026
View CourtListener judicial biographical directory ↗Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court
Courtwide source · HTML · Supreme Court of the United States and Judicial Conference of the United States · Source checked July 26, 2026
View Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited
Courtwide source · HTML · Supreme Court of the United States and Judicial Conference of the United States · Source checked July 26, 2026
View Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗