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Nassau County's Supreme Court is a trial court of broad jurisdiction, though many criminal matters are heard outside its jurisdiction. [2] From May 2008 through April 2009, Driscoll was assigned as a justice in the court's Matrimonial Center, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] before his current assignment to that court's Commercial Division in May 2009.
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 ...
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]
Gulotta was born in Oceanside, New York, on April 27, 1944, [1] the son of Josephine and Frank Gulotta Sr. [2] His father was a former Nassau County district attorney and former New York State Supreme Court judge. The younger Gulotta was raised on Long Island and attended Malverne High School, where he was student president. [2]
Frank A. Gulotta (June 4, 1907 – December 10, 1989) was a New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division judge, and a Nassau County district attorney. Biography
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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)
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]