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Driscoll has been serving in Nassau County's Commercial Division since May 2009 (as of July 2024). [3] New York's Commercial Division is a specialized business court docket within New York's Supreme Court, with a jurisdiction limited to disputes of a business and commercial nature. Commercial Division judges preside over an assigned case from ...
Moxey Rigby (1925): [31] First African American male judge in Nassau County, New York (1959) Aaron Twerski: [115] First Hasidic Jewish male to serve as the Dean of Hofstra University School of Law (1977) Lance D. Clarke: [116] First African American male to serve as the President of the Nassau County Bar Association (2007)
The court currently has 22 judicial seats. [1] As of 2021, the Second Department is the busiest appellate court in the United States and decides 65% of all cases in the Appellate Division. [2] The court issued more than 3,500 rulings in 2017. [3] In 1966, its caseload surpassed that of the First Department, based in Manhattan. [1]
The Appellate Division primarily hears appeals from the state's superior courts (Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, Family Court, Court of Claims, the county courts) in civil cases, the Supreme Court in criminal cases, and, in the Third and Fourth Judicial Departments, from the county courts in felony criminal cases. [5]
In October 2000, he was assigned to the Nassau County Supreme Court's Commercial Division, [2] a specialized business court, where he served until 2009. In 2009, Governor David A. Paterson appointed Austin to be an Associate Justice in New York's intermediate appellate court, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Department. [3]
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The New York State Court of Appeals is the state's highest court. In civil cases, appeals are taken almost exclusively from decisions of the Appellate Divisions. In criminal cases, depending on the type of case and the part of the state in which it arose, appeals can be heard from decisions of the Appellate Division, the Appellate Term, and the County Court.
Nickerson was the only Democrat to be elected county executive in Nassau County until 2001. Later, as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York , he presided over a challenge to the Pentagon's " Don't ask, don't tell " policy on homosexuality and the notorious Abner Louima police ...