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The First Department of the Appellate Division holds jurisdiction over the Counties of New York and the Bronx.Appeals are taken to the Appellate Division, as a matter of right, in civil and criminal cases, from the Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, Family Court, and Court of Claims.
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]
In 2017, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Singh to the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, which has appellate jurisdiction over the counties of New York (Manhattan) and the Bronx. [8] He was the first South Asian person to become an appellate state court judge in New York. In 2023, he was selected by New York ...
There is no “essential similarity” between his federal felonies and the New York state felony of scheme to defraud in the first degree, an Appellate Division, First Deparment, panel has ruled.
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 ...
Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department: Charles D. Breitel: 1967–1978 Republican/Liberal: Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals: Bruce Bromley: 1949 Thomas E. Dewey, Republican Adrian P. Burke: 1955–1973 Democrat/Liberal Benjamin N. Cardozo: 1914–1932 ...
The First Department was the only appellate department in the state with seven judges, as the Appellate Division's other three departments had five judges. Despite this, the First Department was overwhelmed with cases in the late 1890s: it heard over a thousand cases annually, forcing the department to transfer some cases to Brooklyn and ...
In the federal court system and in 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.