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The Queens County Criminal Courts Building houses justices and courtrooms of the New York Supreme Court. The New York Supreme Court is the oldest Supreme Court with general original jurisdiction. It was established as the Supreme Court of Judicature by the Province of New York on May 6, 1691. That court was continued by the State of New York ...
The Supreme Court of New York has never been the highest court of the state. Until 1847, there were two courts above the Supreme Court: the Court for Correction of Errors and the New York Court of Chancery, since 1847 the highest court in the State of New York has been the New York Court of Appeals
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.
Rachel "Ruchie" Freier (born April 2, 1965) [1] is a New York Supreme Court justice. [2]In 2016, she campaigned and was elected as a Civil Court judge for the Kings County 5th judicial district in New York State, thereby becoming the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in New York State, [3] [4] [5] and the first Hasidic woman [6] to hold public office [7] in United ...
Juan Manuel Merchan [1] (born 1962/1963) [2] is an American judge and former prosecutor. He is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). He presided over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump, in which Trump was found guilty by the jury.
Judge Merchan is an acting justice with the New York State Supreme Court and has held the position since 2009. The Colombian native moved to the US as a child and grew up in Queens, New York ...
The ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Maria Vazquez-Doles in Orange County declares that New York’s Voting Rights Act of 2022 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ...
A midlevel New York appellate court could keep, trim, or overturn the biggest of Trump's judgments at any time — his massive civil fraud penalty, a debt to New York state that remains frozen on ...