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Courts of New York include: State courts of New York The 1842 courthouse of the New York Court of Appeals in Albany. 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 ...
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.
The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, or simply the First Department, is one of the four geographical components of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, the intermediate appellate court of the State of New York. Its courthouse is located in Manhattan, New York City.
Its courthouse is located in Brooklyn, New York City. 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 ...
A County Court operates in each county except for the five counties of New York City (in those counties, the New York City Courts and Supreme Court operate in place of a typical County Court). Unlike the Supreme Court, each County Court is considered distinct. [2] The County Court is authorized to establish "appellate sessions", an intermediate ...
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 Second, Third, and Fourth Judicial Departments, from the county courts in felony criminal cases. [5]
The United States District Court for the District of New York was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. It first sat at the old Merchants Exchange on Broad Street in November 1789, the first federal court to do so.
The Nassau County District Court is divided into four districts, all of which sit in Hempstead, New York. [1] The first district covers criminal cases countywide. [ 5 ] The other three districts cover civil cases, and are organized by town and city: the second covers Hempstead and Long Beach , [ 6 ] the third covers North Hempstead , [ 7 ] and ...