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What is Your Policy On Cell Phones in the Court House?

QUESTION: What is your policy on cell phones in the courthouse? Are you able to keep them with you? If not, what do you do with them while you are in the courthouse? Can you use them in the courthouse? SOME RESPONSES: “…The New Castle County Courthouse in Delaware bans…

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Justice Made Local: The Future of Town and Village Courts in New York State: A Report by the Special Commission on the Future of New York State Courts

September 2008 A special commission appointed by Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the Courts in the State of New York, has issued a Report: Justice Most Local, The Future of Town and Village Courts in New York State, which recommends a significant consolidation of the “centuries-old” local court…

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2008 ABA Annual Convention: Some Programs Hosted by the Judicial Division

.:: During the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting, the Judicial Division will be hosting several interesting educational programs for the judges, lawyers, and law students, including the following: : ** National Conference of State Trial Judges 50th Anniversary Program ** A Swift Round-trip on Erie Railroad: State Law in Federal Courts;…

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Annual Reports of the Chief Administrator of the Courts, State of New York

The following are links to State of New York Annual Reports of the Chief Administrator of the Courts, beginning with the Report for 2004. The most recent report available at this initial posting is for 2006. It is our intention to post subsequent reports as they become available. The annual…

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New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye to Receive Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence

Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, has been selected as the recipient of the Fifth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Judge Kaye was chosen by a three-member panel: JudgeEllen Rosenblum, Oregon Court of Appeals; Judge Lorenzo Arredondo, Lake Circuit Court…

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New York Senate Bill S7995 Would Limit Office Of Court Administration (OCA) Use of Court Recording Devices

“Legislation being carried by the chairman of the [New York] state Senate’s Judiciary Committee would set limits on the Office of Court Administration’s now unfettered authority to allow the mechanical recording of proceedings in any state courts in New York….” To see complete article, New York Senate Bill S7995 and…

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Unusual Judges

The following was first posted on the InChambers weblog compiled by boppanny@aol.com, May 2008. [From Mark Levin’s book, “Men in Black”] “Robert C. Grier (U.S. Supreme Court Justice). Appointed by James Polk in 1846, Grier suffered paralysis in 1867 and thereafter began a slow mental decline. Grier’s case is most…

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