--- title: "Eric Ross Komitee | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/eric-ross-komitee" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Eric Ross Komitee U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York · Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York - State: New York - Role: Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official judge-specific and circuitwide procedural guidance has been located for this profile. ## Biography ### Professional career - United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the Senate on December 3, 2019, with his judicial commission issued on December 5, 2019 - Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York, 2000-2008; computer crimes coordinator, 2003-2004; deputy chief, Business and Securities Fraud Section, 2005-2006; chief, Business and Securities Fraud Section, 2006-2008 - Law clerk, Hon. J.L. Edmondson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1995-1996 ### Education - New York University School of Law — J.D. (1995) - Emory University — B.A. (1992) ### Additional information - General counsel, Viking Global Investors LP, New York City, 2008-2018 - Succeeded Judge Eric N. Vitaliano, who assumed senior status in 2017 - Private practice, New York City, 1996-2000 - Born 1970 in Freeport, New York. - Date of birth: 1970-12-21 - Judge Komitee presides over cases in the Eastern District of New York, covering a broad range of federal matters, including business, securities, and criminal cases. - Birth place: Freeport ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### non text exhibits Scope: judge specific Judge Komitee directs parties with non-text exhibits that cannot be filed electronically to provide virus-scanned USB drives to the Clerk's Office and chambers, and identify the filing method and scanning device in related ECF papers. Evidence excerpt: Non-text exhibits that cannot be filed electronically should be submitted on a virus-scanned USB drive to the Clerk's Office (labeled ‘Original’) and to chambers (labeled ‘Courtesy Copy’). Related papers filed on ECF must clearly indicate how the exhibits were filed, and what virus-scanning device was employed. [Judge Eric Komitee Individual Rules and Practices in Criminal Cases](https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/pub/rules/EK-MLR_cr.pdf) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### civil remote testimony Scope: 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. Evidence excerpt: 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](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### criminal recording and broadcasting Scope: 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. Evidence excerpt: 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](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/7460631) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/7460631) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/7460631) - [Judge Eric Komitee Individual Rules and Practices in Criminal Cases](https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/pub/rules/EK-MLR_cr.pdf) - [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) - [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) - [Judge Eric Ross Komitee](https://www.fjc.gov/node/7460631) - [Wikidata: Eric R. 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Civil and criminal sections have distinct scope and district-specific exceptions. Not Bankruptcy Court rules. [Official source](https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/local_rules/2026-01-02%20-%20EDNY%20and%20SDNY%20Joint%20Local%20Rules%20As%20Amended.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-651872d6e45e0d82319ecccc) — 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](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-8721a344fececced2257fe1d) — 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](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.