Court Administration

  • New York Law Journal

    Character and Fitness Panel to Interview Applicants

    By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | September 6, 2017

    Approximately 235 applicants for the bar will be interviewed by the Committee on Character and Fitness of the Appellate Division, First Department, on Tuesday, September 12.

  • National Law Journal

    'PACER Should Be Free,' Tech Scholar Argues in New Paper

    By Marcia Coyle | September 6, 2017

    The federal judiciary's fee-based access to its public online database, known as PACER, is not just anachronistic and counter to history but harms the structural integrity of the modern judiciary, a new research article claims.

  • New York Law Journal

    End of Summer at the First Department

    By David B. Saxe | August 30, 2017

    Despite the separation of time and space, these slower days of August prompt me to think about what must be going on at the Appellate Division courthouse as preparations for a new year begin.

  • New York Law Journal

    Court Officials Mull Criminal Referral of Bookstaver

    By Andrew Denney | August 28, 2017

    Court officials are taking a deeper look at the conduct of former communications director David Bookstaver, who was fired on Aug. 17 after inadvertently dialing a New York Post reporter and admitting he hasn't been showing up for work, for possible criminal charges, according to a statement of the New York courts' inspector general.

  • New York Law Journal

    Manhattan Courthouse Rehab Presents Thorny Issues for NYC

    By Andrew Denney | August 25, 2017

    The state courthouse complex in lower Manhattan is known for its architectural splendor, but proposals over the past few decades to improve aging conditions in the interiors and sew up fragmented offices and courts spread over multiple buildings have gone nowhere while other boroughs get shiny new court facilities. Now the state court system and the city have restarted the conversation.

  • New York Law Journal

    Spokesman's Ouster Follows Disclosure of Inadvertent Phone Message

    By Andrew Denney | August 17, 2017

    David Bookstaver, a longtime spokesman for New York's Office of Court Administration, has been fired after reportedly inadvertently dialing a New York Post reporter and leaving a voicemail in which he could be heard laughing about how he "barely" showed up to work.

  • New York Law Journal

    Reports: Trump Aims to Fill NY's Federal Bench Vacancies

    By Andrew Denney | August 9, 2017

    In addition to possible appointments for U.S. Attorney for New York's Eastern and Southern Districts, President Donald Trump is also considering a list of nominees to fill nine vacancies on the federal bench in New York, according to media reports.

  • New York Law Journal

    Asbestos Case Management Rules Delayed by Court

    By Andrew Denney | July 19, 2017

    Implementation of the vast majority of provisions in a new case management order for the New York City Asbestos Litigation docket have been stayed pending a review by a Manhattan appeals court.

  • New York Law Journal

    Goal of Nation's First Opioid Court: Keep Users Alive

    By Carolyn Thompson | July 10, 2017

    After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation's first opioid crisis intervention court, which can get users into treatment within hours of their arrest, requires them to check in with a judge every day for a month, and puts them on strict curfews. Administering justice takes a back seat to the overarching goal of simply keeping defendants alive.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Commission Head Says OCA Alerted to Admonishment

    By B. Colby Hamilton | July 7, 2017

    The head of the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct is disputing the Office of Court Administration's explanation that allowed an acting state Supreme Court justice to stay on the bench 10 months after an admonishment should have demoted him.

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