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New York Court of Appeals The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the Unified Court System of the State of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six Associate Judges who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by ...
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New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division The Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court of the State of New York are the intermediate appellate courts in New York State. There are four Appellate Divisions, one in each of the state's four Judicial Departments (e.g., the full title of the ...
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New York Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...
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New York County Court The County Courts are courts within the New York State Unified Court System located in each county outside New York City.Constitution of the State of New York Article VI, § 10. "a. The county court is continued in each county outside the city of ...
(57 courts, one for each county outside New York City) ***
New York Surrogate's Court The Surrogate's Court of the State of New York handles all probate and estate proceedings in the New York State Unified Court System. All wills are probated in this court and all estates of people who die without a will are handled in this court. ...
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New York Family Court The Family Court of the State of New York is a specialized court of the New York State Unified Court System located in each county of the state.Constitution of the State of New York Article VI, § 13 The New York City Family Court is the name giv ...
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New York Court of Claims The New York State Court of Claims is the court of the New York State Unified Court System which handles all claims against the State of New York and certain state agencies. Judges Judges of the Court of Claims are appointed by the Governor of New ...
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New York City Criminal Court The Criminal Court of the City of New York is a court of the State Unified Court System in New York City that handles misdemeanors (generally, crimes punishable by fine or imprisonment of up to one year) and lesser offenses, and also conducts a ...
**** New York City Civil Court ***
New York District Court In the U.S. state of New York, District Courts are state courts that are a type of trial court of inferior jurisdiction. District Courts are established in Nassau County the five western towns in Suffolk County. Each contains individual dist ...
*** New York town and village courts Federal courts located in New York *
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York and Vermont. The court has appellate ju ...
(headquartered in
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont) **
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, ...
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United States District Court for the Northern District of New York The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (in case citations, N.D.N.Y.) serves one of the 94 judicial districts in the United States and one of four in the state of New York. Appeals from the Northern District of Ne ...
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United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 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 New York State. Two of these are in New York City: New ...
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United States District Court for the Western District of New York The United States District Court for the Western District of New York (in case citations, W.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the western parts of Upstate New York. Appeals are taken to the Second Circuit (exce ...
U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
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United States Court of International Trade The United States Court of International Trade (case citations: Int'l Trade or Intl. Trade) is a U.S. federal court that adjudicates civil actions arising out of U.S. customs and international trade laws. Seated in New York City, it exercises ...
(headquartered in
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
) Former federal courts of New York *
United States District Court for the District of New York The following are former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California, each of these courts initially covered an entire U.S. state, and was subdivided as the ...
(extinct, subdivided)


See also

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Judiciary of New York The Judiciary of New York (officially the New York State Unified Court System) is the judicial branch of the Government of New York (state), Government of New York, comprising all the courts of the State of New York (excluding extrajudicial admin ...
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New York Court of Common Pleas {{History of NYC The New York Court of Common Pleas was a state court in New York. Established in the Province of New York in 1686, the Court remained in existence in the Province and, after the American Revolution, in the U.S. state of New York ...
(historical) * New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments (historical) *
New York Court of Chancery The New York Court of Chancery was the highest court in the State of New York from 1701 to 1847. History The New York Court of Chancery was established during the British colonial administration on August 28, 1701, with the colonial governor actin ...
(historical) * New York Court of General Sessions (historical)


References


Further reading

Galie, Peter J. and Bopst, Christopher, The New York State Constitution (2nd ed. 2012) Lincoln, Charles Z., The Constitutional History of New York from the Beginning of the Colonial Period to the Year 1905 (1906) State of New York, Department of State, New York Constitutio

The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New Yor


External links


National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites
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