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County courts were abolished in 1855 and their functions were transferred to a strengthened Superior Court. [4] As the volume of cases continued to increase, the Connecticut General Assembly found it necessary to create a series of Courts of Common Pleas. On July 1, 1978, the Court of Common Pleas and the Juvenile Court merged with the Superior ...
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 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 district covers the five counties just north of New York City — Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess and Orange. ... The Democratic candidates for state Supreme Court in the 9th Judicial ...
Each judge or courtroom in the United States has a law and motion calendar, setting aside the times when only motions and special legal arguments are heard.These items consist of pretrial motions (such as a motion to compel relating to discovery requests) or other legal requests that are not connected to a trial, and do not include trials themselves.
Nov. 9—OTTAWA — A scheduled pre-trial hearing in the murder case of Travis Soto, which has bounced through the appeals process for more than six years, failed to materialize Thursday in Putnam ...
New York's historic Putnam County Courthouse is located on Gleneida Avenue across from the eastern terminus of NY 301 in downtown Carmel, the county seat, overlooking Lake Gleneida. First built in 1814, two years after the county itself was established, it is the second-oldest county courthouse still in use in the state after Fulton County 's.
The court's year-long term commences on the first Monday in October (and is simply called "October Term"), with a Red Mass the day before. The court then alternates between "sittings" and "recesses" and goes into final recess at the end of June. Several Midwest and East Coast states and some federal courts still use the legal year and terms of ...