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These counties comprise 8% of New York State's land area, yet account for more than 50% of its population. [1] As with all four departments of the Appellate Division, the Second Department was created in its current form by the Constitution of the State of New York, adopted at the 1894 constitutional convention. The constitution fixes the ...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York is the intermediate appellate court in New York State. [2] The state is geographically divided into four judicial departments of the Appellate Division. [3] The full title of each is, using the "Fourth Department" as an example, the "Supreme Court of the State of New York ...
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.
In the Federal court system and in nearly all other U.S. states, the court of last resort is known as the "Supreme Court". New York, however, calls its lower courts the "Supreme Court" – consisting of the trial court and the intermediate appellate court, known as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court – and the court of last resort the Court of Appeals.
Washington Court of Appeals. Wash. Const. Art. IV § 30. The Washington Court of Appeals is the intermediate level appellate court for the state of Washington. The court is divided into three divisions. Division I is based in Seattle, Division II is based in Tacoma, and Division III is based in Spokane.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in each judicial department is authorized to establish "appellate terms". [31] An appellate term is an intermediate appellate court that hears appeals from the inferior courts within their designated counties or judicial districts, and are intended to ease the workload on the Appellate Division and ...
Hector LaSalle. Hector Daniel LaSalle[2] (born 1967/1968) [3] is an American lawyer and jurist who is the presiding judge of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department. He was unsuccessfully nominated by Governor Kathy Hochul to serve as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. [4][5]
The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United States district courts and some U.S. administrative agencies, and their decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 ...