Free Newsletter
All rise (or not)! NYC e-court now in session
By: The Associated Press//July 8, 2011//
Listen to this articleNEW YORK CITY — Think the paper piles are deep around your home?
Clerks at Manhattan’s state Supreme Court say they’d run out of places to put it.
Not to worry.
The state now requires lawyers in about 6,000 cases dealing with commercial disputes in the Manhattan courthouse to “e-file” their cases. Clerks and judges then process the documents, theoretically in a paper-free manner.
First Deputy Chief Clerk Jeffrey Carucci is coordinating a statewide program to expand the electronic court.
Says Carucci: “We have momentum to really eliminate the paper.”
Admittedly, the effort is a little more time-consuming than clearing off your coffee table. … And your dresser.
Carucci tells The New York Times that the whole project could be complete in 20 years.
Related Content
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Plea: People v. Davis
- Second Circuit – Revocation of minimum sentence: Bangs v. Walter William Smith, et al.
- Fourth Department – Relation-back doctrine: CHS Inc. v. Land O’Lakes Purina Feed, et al.
- Fourth Department – Unlawful arrest: People v. Burke
- Fourth Department – Attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance: People v. Brown
- Second Circuit – Immigration: Paucar v. Garland
- Fourth Department – Slip and fall: Black v. 465 Payne Avenue
- Second Circuit – Misappropriation of trade secrets: Pauwels v. Deloitte
- Fourth Department – Molineux evidence: People v. Anderson
- Second Circuit – Possession of a firearm: United States v. Pastore
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Prior client representation: Opinion 23-16
- Fourth Department – Promissory note: Aldrich v. LNG Enterprises
Law News
- NY Court of Appeals reverses gun conviction over ineffective counsel
- Split court affirms gun conviction, finding search and arrest were legal
- NY appeals court vacates drug conviction over illegal police search
- Split Court of Appeals strips Police Accountability Board of disciplinary power
- Manslaughter conviction reversed after appeals court finds insufficient evidence
- Rochester-area family sues over compromised medical records
- Gov. Hochul signs Clean Slate Act, allowing certain criminal records to be sealed
- Class-action lawsuit filed over cyberattack affecting thousands of patients
Polls
Loading ...