Recent news, events, and useful information from the
Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association
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On September 26, 2019, former United States Magistrate Judge George H. Lowe interviewed retired United States Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles for the purpose of memorializing Judge Peebles’ lengthy and impressive career.
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October 30, 5:30 p.m.: Reception for new Magistrate Judge Miroslav Lovric, Double Tree Hilton Hotel, Binghamton
November 1, 5 p.m.: Fireside Chat with District Judge Norman A. Mordue at Syracuse College of Law, Dineen Hall, David M. Levy Atrium; social hour to follow
November 12, 6 p.m.: Ethel Rosenberg Trial Reenactment, James T. Foley Courthouse, Albany
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In September, the Syracuse University Law Alumni Association recognized United States Magistrate Judge Thérèse Wiley Dancks (Class of ’91) with a Law Honors Award. She was honored for “her active and engaged career on the bench and her unceasing support of her community, the rule of law, and diversity initiatives.”
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By the time you receive this newsletter, you will be ready to welcome trick-or-treaters at your front door. Fall is well underway, which means we are preparing for our Annual Meeting and Dinner to be held in Albany on December 5, 2019 at Sixty State Place, a historic Beaux-Art former bank headquarters once known as a “temple of finance.”
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On a recent weekend the Judiciary experienced a widespread outage of its CM/ECF filing system. Although the Northern District of New York was not significantly impacted, the outage provides an opportune time to remind our stakeholders of the procedures in place should the Court’s CM/ECF website experience a technical failure.
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Shortly before 9 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, 2019, the District Judges, Magistrate Judges and Bankruptcy Judges of the Northern District, cups of coffee in hand, filtered into the theater at the Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid, to watch the film
Garrow (Adirondack Films 2018), about Robert Francis Garrow, Sr., the serial rapist and spree killer who terrorized the North Country between 1960 and 1978.
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The judicial and political history of Northern New York is replete with dynamic legal stories that have helped shape not only how the Northern District looks today, but also how jurisprudence has developed in a number of legal areas that remain critical to our current understanding of American law. In one rare case, the fruitful family tree of a distinguished Northern New York family shaped the judicial and political landscape of our state and our nation.
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