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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York is the intermediate appellate court in New York State. [2] The state is geographically divided into four judicial departments of the Appellate Division. [3] The full title of each is, using the "Fourth Department" as an example, the "Supreme Court of the State of New York ...
The Fourth Department of the Appellate Division holds jurisdiction over 22 counties in Central and Western New York State, and includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. Geographically, the Fourth Department extends from the St. Lawrence River in the north to the Pennsylvania border in the south and from the Mohawk Valley in the ...
Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Domenick L. Gabrielli. 1973–1982. Republican/ Conservative. James Gibson. 1969–1972. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican. Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department. John Clinton Gray.
The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court is the principal intermediate appellate court. The New York State Supreme Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction in civil cases statewide and in criminal cases in New York City. Outside New York City, the 57 individual County Courts hear felony criminal cases.
New York City has a cap of 171 justices (and only some of the New York Supreme Court justices in New York City serve in trial parts, with others assigned to the Appellate Division or the Appellate Term). As a result, New York City has too few judges to handle New York City's caseload, which is more than 100,000 cases annually; the population ...
Nomenclature. In the Federal court system, and 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.
Pages in category "New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department justices" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In February 2008, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department ruled unanimously in Martinez v. County of Monroe that because New York legally recognizes out-of-state marriages of opposite-sex couples, it must do the same for same-sex couples. On May 6, 2008, the Court of Appeals declined to hear Monroe County's appeal.