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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]
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 ...
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 Criminal Court; New York City Civil ...
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]
Every case that comes before an appellate court (or every case where there is some dissension) brings with it the tension between the value of the court speaking with one unified voice versus one ...
Established on March 3, 1887 by 24 Stat. 492 as a circuit judgeship for the Second Circuit Reassigned on June 16, 1891 to the newly formed U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by the Judiciary Act of 1891: Lacombe: NY: 1891–1916 Hough: NY: 1916–1927 A. Hand: NY: 1927–1953 Harlan II: NY: 1954–1955 Lumbard: NY: 1955–1971 ...
The courts uniquely “have intermediate appellate jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases appealed from district or county courts,” the Office of Court Administration explains.