United States District Court for the Southern District of New York information
United States federal district court
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United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
(S.D.N.Y.)
Location
Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse
(Manhattan)
More locations
Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse
(Manhattan)
Charles L. Brieant Jr. Federal Building and Courthouse
(White Plains)
Middletown
Appeals to
Second Circuit
Established
April 9, 1814
Judges
28
Chief Judge
Laura Taylor Swain
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney
Damian Williams
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 and influence, it is sometimes colloquially called the "Mother Court" or the "Sovereign District of New York."[2][3] The district 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.[4]
^"Southern District of New York". United States Department of Justice. November 13, 2014.
^"The Mother Court: A.K.A., the Southern District Court of New York".
^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.
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