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The New York State Senate rejected Presiding Second Appellate Division Justice Hector LaSalle's nomination to be the next chief judge of the State Court of Appeals after the Judiciary Committee decided earlier Wednesday not to advance the nomination.
Ahead of a confirmation hearing next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, nine retired New York judges have banded together to support Gov. Kathy Hochul's choice of Presiding Second Appellate Division Justice Hector LaSalle to be the next chief judge of the state Court of Appeals.
A Manhattan federal judge ordered an attorney representing himself in a crypto investor's $5.2 million bid to recover missing funds to be jailed over his repeated efforts to delay producing bank statements and other financial records, according to court records filed Friday.
In a departure from other lawyer groups, the New York City Bar Association has issued a "not well qualified" rating to First Appellate Division Justice Jeffrey Oing, one of seven candidates being considered to replace former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.
The New York State Trial Lawyers Association on Tuesday released its ratings of seven candidates nominated by the New York State Commission on judicial nominations to fill the chief judge vacancy on the state Court of Appeals.