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In 2023 she was selected as one of five judges running for New York Supreme Court on the Democratic party line. [3] On June 25, 2024, Johnson won the Democratic nomination for the Queens County Surrogate's Court judgeship with approximately 54% of the vote. She will be running against the GOP nominee, Stephen Weiner, in November 2024.
In some counties, usually those with a small number of inhabitants, the judge of the County Court holds at the same time the office of surrogate. [4] There have been frequent efforts to abolish the Surrogate's Court and redistribute its powers to the New York Supreme Court (the general trial court) and the Family Court. The most recent efforts ...
Michele R. Titus is an American politician and jurist from Queens, New York who has served as a New York City Civil Court Judge since January 2020. A Democrat, Titus previously represented District 31 in the New York State Assembly from 2002 to 2020.
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The New York State Court of Appeals is the state's highest court. In civil cases, appeals are taken almost exclusively from decisions of the Appellate Divisions. In criminal cases, depending on the type of case and the part of the state in which it arose, appeals can be heard from decisions of the Appellate Division, the Appellate Term, and the County Court.
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 Second, Third, and Fourth Judicial Departments, from the county courts in felony criminal cases. [5]
While the ruling allows Missouri to enforce its ban on Down syndrome-related abortions, the provision was already in effect after the state banned nearly all abortions last month.