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March 1, 2024 | New York Law Journal
The current appointive system for Court of Appeals judges discarded the statewide elective method, a Law Journal columnist recounts. Centralized administration with statewide fiscal resources shifted executive leadership responsibility to the chief judge and chief administrative judge.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
5 minute read
February 7, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Since secular governance and its justice system are imperfect human institutions at all three branches, each must be ever mindful to keep striving for the ideal of fair, equal and proportionate justice, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
5 minute read
January 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal
A Law Journal columnist recounts legendary Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's one-time clash with a New York chief judge.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
4 minute read
January 12, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Politicians on the losing side of litigation over reconfiguring New York's congressional districts may not be the only losers in this bruising battle, no matter the results of the short-term map-making do-over, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
4 minute read
November 16, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The better policy of wait-and-see, with diligent continuing deliberations among the permanent members, is a virtue well worth practicing because it affords the opportunity to pursue common-ground solutions inter sese for the decisions where recusals or absences occur, and the few where a vouch-in is unavoidably needed.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
5 minute read
November 1, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Early in Law Journal columnist Joseph Bellacosa's tenure at the New York Court of Appeals, a destabilizing financial meltdown was brewing back in the Big Apple. Hugh Carey was sworn in as governor was sworn in that year and he took leadership to get the state legislature to pass emergency temporary relief—a moratorium on the payment of New York City's short-term obligations of approximately $5 billion.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
4 minute read
September 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Retired Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Bellacosa looks back at the notable accomplishments of the past chief judges of the Court of Appeals, which, as he writes, was "inspired solely by the Court's recent leadership change with a fresh en banc composition."
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
8 minute read
August 9, 2023 | New York Law Journal
A former high court judge comes to the defense of Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, who serves as the New York court system's independent monitor for its efforts to combat racial bias in the courts.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
1 minute read
June 5, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Since human intelligence is finite in this world by its nature, and retired Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa is counting on humanity to once again defeat tech artificial intelligence, just as the Enlightenment turned out to be not so enlightened.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
6 minute read
May 8, 2023 | New York Law Journal
A court of last resort is more like an elegant boutique than an all-purposes/all-products department store.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
11 minute read
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