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LOWER APPELLATE COURTS


The County Courts in the Third and Fourth Departments (although primarily trial courts), hear appeals from cases originating in the City, Town and Village Courts.

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court have been established in the First and Second Departments to hear appeals from civil and criminal cases originating in the Civil and Criminal Courts of the City of New York. In the Second Department, the Appellate Terms also have jurisdiction over appeals from civil and criminal cases originating in District, City, Town and Village Courts, as well as non-felony appeals from the County Court.

Appellate Terms

First Dept.

1st JD
NY County

12th JD
Bronx

Second Dept.

2nd JD
Kings (Brooklyn)

9th JD
Dutchess
Orange
Putnam
Rockland
Westchester

10th JD
Nassau &
Suffolk

11th JD
Queens

13th JD
Richmond (Staten Island)

County Courts

Third Dept.

3rd JD
Albany
Columbia
Greene
Rensselaer
Schoharie
Sullivan
Ulster

4th JD
Clinton
Essex
Franklin
Fulton
Hamilton
Montgomery
St. Lawrence
Saratoga
Schenectady
Warren
Washington

6th JD
Broome
Chemung
Chenango
Cortland
Delaware
Madison
Otsego
Schuyler
Tioga
Tompkins

Fourth Dept.

5th JD
Herkimer
Jefferson
Lewis
Oneida
Onondaga
Oswego

7th JD
Cayuga
Livingston
Monroe
Ontario
Seneca
Steuben
Wayne
Yates

8th JD
Allegany
Cattaraugus
Chautauqua
Erie
Genesee
Niagara
Orleans
Wyoming