A unanimous five-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department has turned down an ...

Sometimes a litigation emergency reaches our nation’s highest court. Ira Matetsky offers a practitioner’s guide to seeking a ...

Explore how New York’s appellate courts and Court of Appeals review cases, set precedents, and ensure justice across the state.

The plaintiff brought this negligence action for damages after he sustained injuries as a passenger in a vehicle that was fleeing from police. During the pursuit, the vehicle in which the passenger ...

The Appellate Term of the State Supreme Court for the Second Department, Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts has a new leader in Presiding Justice Timothy S. Driscoll. He succeeds the late Presiding ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State William H. Seward, who – according to historians – told the Seneca leader the ...

New York law provides creditors with a powerful tool to pursue collection on a written guaranty on an expedited track. CPLR 3213 allows a creditor ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously ...

A pioneering judge whose career spanned nearly five decades and whose integrity and intellect earned him the title of a ...

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a "powerhouse" appeal in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him, demanding the verdict be thrown out and that the "most ...