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The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of the State of New York. Two of these are in New York City: New York (Manhattan) and Bronx; six are in the Hudson Valley: Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange ...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens, as well as Richmond (Staten Island), the latter three being among New York City's five boroughs.
In the U.S. state of New York, District Courts are state courts that are a type of trial court of inferior jurisdiction. District Courts are established in Nassau County [1] and the five western towns in Suffolk County. [2] Each contains individual districts for civil cases which are organized along town lines, while criminal cases are heard in ...
The United States District Court for the Western District of New York (in case citations, W.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the western parts of Upstate New York. Appeals are taken to the Second Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to ...
The District Court for the District of New York convened on November 3, 1789, with Judge James Duane presiding. On April 9, 1814, that original district split into the Northern and Southern Districts of New York; the first federal judge of the District Court for the Northern District of New York was Matthias Burnett Tallmadge.
Three territories of the United States — the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands— have district courts that hear federal cases, including bankruptcy cases.[1] The breakdown of what is in each judicial district is codified in 28 U.S.C. §§ 81–131. Federal judicial districts have also been established in the District of ...
Lewis Avins Kaplan (born December 23, 1944) [1] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. [2] He was the presiding judge in a number of cases involving high-profile defendants, including E. Jean Carroll v.
The formal naming convention for the district courts is "United States District Court for" followed by the district name. Each district court has one or more meeting places at which it holds hearings and conducts business. Many federal courthouses are named after notable judges, such as the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York ...