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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 ...
Pages in category "New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department justices" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Valerie Brathwaite Nelson is an American attorney, politician, and jurist from New York who is serving on the Second Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division (2016 - present) and the New York Supreme Court 11th Judicial District (2005 - present).
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]
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 ...