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The court has jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal appeals from the trial courts located in 10 counties: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester in the Hudson Valley, Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island, and Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) in New York City. These counties comprise 8% of New York State's land ...
Singh was elected to the New York City Civil Court in 2002, and re-elected in 2012. In 2013, he was elected as a justice to the New York Supreme Court, beginning service in 2014. In 2010, Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau had appointed Singh to serve as an acting Supreme court justice. As a Supreme court justice, among other positions, he ...
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York.It is vested with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction, although in many counties outside New York City it acts primarily as a court of civil jurisdiction, with most criminal matters handled in County Court.
New York's rules of civil procedure allow for interlocutory appeals of right from nearly every order and decision of the trial court, [6] meaning that most may be appealed to the appropriate appellate department while the case is still pending in the trial court.[[Map of the four departments of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
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 ...
He subsequently served on the New York City Civil Court from 1990 to 1993. He was a New York Supreme Court Justice , from 1994 to 1999. He was designated a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 1999 by Governor George Pataki .
New York Court of Appeals [1] New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (4 departments) [2] New York Supreme Court (13 judicial districts) [3] New York County Court (57 courts, one for each county outside New York City) [4] New York Surrogate's Court; New York Family Court; New York Court of Claims [5] New York City courts. New York City ...
Of his first six Supreme court appointments in 1789, two were from the East, two from the Mid-Atlantic and two from the South. From 1789 until 1971, with the exception of the 1865–76 Reconstruction Era , there was always a southerner on the Court; similarly, from 1789 through 1932 there was always a New Englander as well. [ 21 ]