Hello everyone! I am most honored to serve as your Presiding Member of the Judicial Section and to succeed the extraordinary Presiding Members who served before me. I would especially like to thank Hon. James P. Murphy, former Presiding Member, who encouraged me and invited me to serve as the Section’s Treasurer in 2019, and … Continued
“For Sylvia Mendez, a life-long quest for equality began when she was just eight years old. Outraged that their daughter had to attend a segregated school, Sylvia’s parents linked arms with other Latino families to fight injustice in a California federal court in a case that would pave the way for Brown v. Board of … Continued
Three Different Entities, With Very Different Powers and Purposes Let’s start with a bit of disambiguation, illustrated in Figure 1 below. We are the co-chairs and staff counsel of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics. As the name suggests, the Advisory Committee provides ethics advice to judges, justices and quasi-judicial officials of the NYS Unified Court … Continued
I view my presidency as an opportunity for our association to tackle issues that are important to us individually as attorneys and judges, and for the profession itself. Most of them do not have easy solutions, which is why we need to address them head on. The New York State Bar Association has long supported … Continued
On August 4, 2023, the Hon. Justice Ebiowei Tobi, Justice of the Court of Appeals in Nigeria, came to Cooperstown to tour the Otsego County Supreme Court Courthouse. He related that in Nigeria, the Court of Appeals is directly below the Nigerian Supreme Court and hears appeals from all lower state and federal courts. Justice … Continued
Hon. Gerald Lebovits is an acting Supreme Court justice in New York County and an adjunct professor at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU law schools. He thanks Cole Rosenblum, his judicial extern from Brooklyn Law School, for his research. New York is unique in the United States in the breadth of civil interlocutory appeals that parties may … Continued
At a recent meeting of the Council of Judicial Associations held at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department, Associate Justice Barbara Kapnick asked why so few upstate justices and judges support the New York State Bar Association. I’m not quite sure what I said, but I know it was not the thoughtful, … Continued
“It’s so nice to be in a room full of judges,” said Hon. Hector LaSalle when he addressed the room full of judges at the 2023 Judicial Section Reception and Luncheon on January 20, 2023. That sentiment was surely felt by the room of an estimated 150 judges who gathered at the New York Hilton … Continued
Greetings and happy new year! It was wonderful to see so many of you, up close and IN PERSON, at our annual luncheon on January 20th. Congratulations again to our amazing honorees: Hon. Hector D. LaSalle, Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, Recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Jurist Award, and our three Recipients … Continued
Reprinted with permission from the “February 10, 2023 edition of the “New York Law Journal”© 202X ALM Global Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited, contact 877-256-2472 or reprints@alm.com. “ Upon retiring from the Court, one of my predecessors, Bernard Botein – who served as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, … Continued