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The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of the State of New York.
The Southern District of New York is a federal judicial district that encompasses the counties of New York , Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. Federal offices or agencies operating in the district include: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight contiguous New York counties: the counties (coextensive boroughs of New York City) of New York (Manhattan) and Bronx, and the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan.
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse is a courthouse at 500 Pearl Street, along Foley Square, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The 27-story courthouse, completed in 1996, houses the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Upon graduation from law school he spent a brief period as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.He was a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York from 1987 to 1988 before Leval was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The Southern District of New York is a major venue for bankruptcy, as it has jurisdiction over the corporate headquarters and major financial institutions located in Manhattan. Originally, the District Court itself handled bankruptcies; these and admiralty court cases dominated nearly to the exclusion of all other cases, which were primarily ...
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, as the unit is formally known, declined to comment. Clayton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On February 12, 2020, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Rearden to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She had been strongly recommended by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and was nominated as part of a bipartisan package of judicial nominees. [4]