Back محكمة مقاطعة الولايات المتحدة في المنطقة الجنوبية من نيويورك Arabic Obvodní soud pro jižní obvod New Yorku Czech United States District Court for the Southern District of New York German Corte de Distrito de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito Sur de Nueva York Spanish دادگاه ناحیهای ایالات متحده آمریکا برای ناحیه جنوبی نیویورک Persian Pengadilan Negeri Federal Amerika Serikat untuk Daerah Selatan New York ID Southern District of New York NB United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Portuguese Федеральный окружной суд Южного округа Нью-Йорка Russian United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Swedish
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| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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| (S.D.N.Y.) | |
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| Location | Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse |
| Appeals to | Second Circuit |
| Established | April 9, 1814 |
| Judges | 28 |
| Chief Judge | Laura Taylor Swain |
| Officers of the court | |
| U.S. Attorney | Edward Kim (acting) |
| U.S. Marshal | Ralph Sozio |
| www.nysd.uscourts.gov | |
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of the State of New York. Two of these are in New York City: New York (Manhattan) and Bronx; six are in the Hudson Valley: Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
Because it covers Manhattan, the Southern District of New York has long been one of the most active and influential federal trial courts in the United States. It often has jurisdiction over America's largest financial institutions and prosecution of white-collar crime and other federal crimes.[1] Because of its age, being the oldest federal court in the history of the United States,[2][3] great influence, described as "the preeminent trial court in the nation",[4] and its strong independence,[5] it is colloquially called the "Mother Court",[6] or the "Sovereign District of New York."[7]
The district itself has had several prominent judges on its bench, including Learned Hand, Michael Mukasey, and Sonia Sotomayor, and many of the U.S. attorneys for the district have been prominent American legal and political figures, such as Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, Robert Morgenthau, Rudy Giuliani, James Comey, Michael J. Garcia, and Preet Bharara.[8]
- ^ "Southern District of New York". United States Department of Justice. November 13, 2014.
- ^ Burak, H. Paul (May 1, 1962). History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (PDF) (Report). Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey & Connecticut. p. 1. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
- ^ The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: A Retrospective (1990-2000) (Report). The New York County Lawyers’ Association. December 2002. p. 11. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
- ^ Zirin, James D. (2014). The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association. pp. x. ISBN 978-1-62722-322-5.
- ^ Smith, Allan (March 25, 2019). "'We know how to do this better than anybody': Southern District of NY on the job after Mueller probe ends". NBC News. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ^ Zirin, James D. (2014). The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association. pp. ix, xiii. ISBN 978-1-62722-322-5.
- ^ Weiser, Benjamin; Rashbaum, William K. (March 10, 2017). "With Preet Bharara's Dismissal, Storied Office Loses Its Top Fighter". New York Times.
In past presidential transitions, the storied office, long known to be so independent of Washington that some people referred to it as the Sovereign District of New York, has in large measure moved forward unaffected by politics.
- ^ Weiser, Benjamin (January 29, 2009). "A Steppingstone for Law's Best and Brightest". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2019.