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New York legal research
Research scoped to New York, with 13 courts you can name when a question turns on which court hears it.
Courts of New York.
Verified against the New York judiciary. Only courts that exist in this jurisdiction are listed, and research can be scoped to any of them.
Intermediate Appellate Courts
- Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (4 departments)
- Appellate Term of the Supreme Court (First and Second Departments)
Trial Courts — General Jurisdiction
- Supreme Court (trial level)
- Court of Claims (statewide; claims against the State)
- County Court
- Family Court
- Surrogate's Court
Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
- Civil Court of the City of New York
- Criminal Court of the City of New York
- District Court (Nassau and western Suffolk)
- City Court
- Town and Village Justice Court
How research is scoped here.
The jurisdiction travels with the question and is recorded on the answer.
Scope
New York by default
Set New York on a case file and every question in it inherits that scope until you override it.
Sources
Primary law
Court opinions, codified statutes, retrieved before the answer is written.
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Citations verified
Authorities asserted in the answer are matched against what was retrieved. Unmatched ones are reported.
Research New York.
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Jurisdictions with a comparable appellate structure
Grouped by whether appeals pass through an intermediate court or run straight to the court of last resort.
Limits on New York coverage.
Stated plainly, because coverage is not uniform.
- The court list above is verified. Judge rosters, local rules, filing fees and courthouse details are not published here.
- Statute retrieval is search over published law, not a complete copy of the New York code. Depth varies by topic.
- Nothing here is legal advice, and no result is a prediction of outcome.