[2] Newcomer entered the V-12 Navy College Training Program, and was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant of an amphibious landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II, from 1943 to 1946.
[2][1] During that time he earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1944, where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.
[8] In 1980, he ended Topps Chewing Gum's exclusive right to sell baseball cards, allowing the Fleer Corporation to compete in the market.
[9] In 1993 he ruled that a law firm's refusal to promote a female associate to partner violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
[1] Newcomer presided over a 2005 trial in which a jury awarded residents displaced by the 1972 MOVE bombing by the police a $12.83 million verdict against the City of Philadelphia.