A coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.
Read MoreThe threat of massive disruptions to the city’s courts grew Friday as the ongoing mass strike of public defenders and legal services attorneys doubled in size.
Read MoreThe largest public defender strike the city has seen in 30 years may start sooner than later, as a small group of legal services attorneys went on strike last week and as unions representing thousands of attorneys issued impending strike deadlines.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed a series of changes to the state’s discovery reforms during her annual State of the State address Tuesday.
Read MoreJudges are calling for the governor to sign a bill that would put an end to the “death gamble” they say they face as their retirement approaches, forcing them to retire early for the sake of their family’s financial future.
Read MoreNew York’s judges will now have access to revamped trainings aimed at ensuring the judiciary is up to speed on the state’s bail laws, court officials announced last week.
Read MoreBreaking from the New York City and State Bar Associations, several bar associations representing Latino and Hispanic legal professionals have begun to voice their opposition to court leaders’ plan to reform the state’s decades-old court structure.
Read MoreOver 100 court employees in New York State were fired Wednesday after they failed to comply with the Office of Court Administration’s vaccine mandate.
Read MoreA group of Supreme Court justices have called on the Office of Court Administration to shift away from in-person proceedings as COVID-19 cases in the courts continue to rise.
Read MoreDeputy Chief Administrative Judge of New York City George J. Silver will retire on Sept. 30.
Read MoreJury trials resume March 22.
Read MoreBusiness is continuing more or less as usual across Queens’ sprawling court system, even as other institutions restrict access or limit large gatherings of people amid coronavirus uncertainty.
Read MoreJudicial salaries depend on the type of judge, and can vary from $240,000 for the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals to $189,000 for City Court Judges.
Read MoreBarbara Perez was discovered dead on the floor of the Ridgewood gym Power Factory where she worked in August 2000.
Read MoreIn addition to the 17 cases filed in Queens, there were 251 complaints in New York City’s other four Supreme Civil Courts.
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