Chief Judge Janet DiFiore at the podium, flanked by members of the Court of Appeals and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks. From left: Judges Rowan Wilson, Eugene Fahey, Jenny Rivera, Marks, DiFiore, Leslie Stein, Michael Garcia and Paul Feinman. (Photo: David Handschuh/NYLJ)
Four-judge panels are unfair to litigants because they reduce the chances of taking a case to the Court of Appeals: dissents by two out of four justices are simply harder to come by than dissents by two out of five.
March 11, 2019 at 11:29 AM
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The report (March 6) that the short-handed Appellate Division, First Department, must begin using four-judge panels notes the possibility that this can result in tie votes. There is another concern as well.
Pursuant to CPLR § 5601(a) when two Justices dissent on a question of the law in a civil case the losing side has the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals–there is no need to make an application for leave to appeal.
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