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Gerard Maxwell Weisberg (August 1, 1925 – May 17, 2003) was a justice for the
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from 1979 to 1994.


Biography

Weisberg was born in 1925. He was a graduate of St. John's,
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and
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. Weisberg was deputy commissioner at the New York City Department of License from 1962 to 1966,
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from 1966 to 1968. This became the
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in 1968 and he served until 1969. He was a judge for the
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from 1969 to 1977,
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judge from 1977 to 1995, a justice for the
New York State Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...
from 1979 to 1994 and he served as a commissioner for the
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from 1996 to 1998, when he retired.


References

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