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New York County Supreme Court building at 60 Centre Street, from across Foley Square
To add to the confusion, the court's New York County location is distributed across several buildings in Manhattan. The civil branch is at several buildings near Foley Square : the main New York County Courthouse building at 60 Centre Street (see photo), and three others at 80 Centre Street (across Worth Street), 111 Centre Street, and 71 Thomas Street. The criminal branch is at 100 Centre Street, shared with the Manhattan Criminal Court , the Office of the District Attorney and other agencies, and at 111 Centre Street, shared with the New York County Civil Court . This is also true of the Supreme Court in Kings County and in Richmond County. In Richmond County several "Parts" of the Supreme Court are located in the former U.S. Navy Home Port (each Part is usually where one Supreme Court judge sits).
The State Supreme Court handles large civil cases throughout New York State, and also handles felony criminal cases within the five counties that make up New York City. Outside New York City, the County Courts handle felony criminal cases. Smaller civil cases and less serious criminal cases are handled in other courts: the Civil and Criminal Courts in New York City; County and District Courts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long IslandThis article is about Long Island in New York State. For other uses, see Long Island (disambiguation Long Island part of New York State, is an island off the North American coast, some 118 miles (190 km) long, and from 12 to 20 miles wide, extending from; and County , City, Town and Village Courts in the rest of the state. Certain specialized matters are handled by other courts; for example, probateProbate is the legal process of settling a dead person's estate: specifically, distributing his property. Probate in the United States In most states, after a person residing in that state has died, his property immediately becomes the property of his spo matters are heard in Surrogate's Court , juvenile delinquencyJuvenile delinquency refers to antisocial or criminal acts performed by juveniles. It is an important social issue because juveniles are capable of committing serious crimes, but society must also recognize that responsibility for juvenile behavior goes b and child custodyChild custody and guardianship are the legal terms used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and child, including e. the right of the parent to make decisions for the child and the duty to care for it; it comes into question i matters in Family Court , and claims against the state in the Court of Claims . Although the New York Supreme Court in theory has unlimited general original jurisdictionThe term jurisdiction has more than one sense. Power of a court of law Jurisdiction is the power of a court to hear and decide a case before it. In most common law systems, jurisdiction is conceptually divided between jurisdiction over the subject matter, in practice it does not normally hear cases that are within the powers of a New York state trial court of limited jurisdiction such as County Court or N.Y.C. Civil Court.
AppealsThis article is about the legal term. For usage in the sport of cricket, see Appeal (cricket). An appeal is the act or fact of challenging a judicially cognizable and binding decision to a higher judicial authority. In common law jurisdictions, most commo from Supreme Court decisions go to the Appellate Division , which is New York's intermediate appellate courtAn appellate court is a court that hears cases in which a lower court either a trial court or a lower-level appellate court has already made some decision, which at least one party to the action wants to challenge based upon some legal grounds that are al divided into four appellate departmentAppellate department is the term used to distinguish the four appellate jurisdictions in New York state. In the intermediate appeal courts in New York each appellate department develops its own jurisprudence, much like the different United States Districts, decisions of these intermediate appellate courts are only binding in each appellate department. New York's highest appellate court is the Court of Appeals; appeals are taken from the four departments to the Court of Appeals; decisions from the Court of Appeals are binding throughout the state.New York Supreme Court justices are elected to 14-year terms. In practice, most of the power of selecting judges belongs to local political party organizations. Regardless of the term for which they are elected,justices retire at the end of the year in which they reach the age of seventy years, a replacement being chosen to a fresh 14-year term that November with effect from the start of the following year.