Plaintiffs in New York State Supreme Court with business flaps involving less than $500,000 may soon find themselves before a new judge—one used to disputes where half a million dollars amounts to rounding error. But he could soon be hearing much bigger cases, given the state’s ambitions for its courts.
Longtime Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Barry Ostrager, freshly retired from the firm at 67, reported to his new chambers at 60 Centre Street in Manhattan earlier this week as the state’s newest acting Supreme Court justice. Ostrager, who quietly retired from Simpson Thacher this spring, was nominated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on April 29 to the state’s Court of Claims, a different court that handles claims against the state. The state’s chief justice, however, is authorized to reassign Court of Claims judges to hear cases in Supreme Court, and that’s what happened to Ostrager, who’s now assigned to the part of the court that handles relatively minor commercial disputes.
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