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HISTORY OF LAW REPORTING

CONSOLIDATION OF OFFICIAL REPORTING


   A 1917 law (L 1917, ch 775) set up a Board of Reporters chaired by the State Reporter and authorized the board – subject to the approval of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals – to enter into a single contract for the printing and publication of its three publications and the combined advance sheets.
   Legislation enacted in 1924 (L 1924, ch 173) abolished the office of the Miscellaneous Reporter and transferred its functions to the office of the Supreme Court Reporter.
   A constitutional amendment in 1925 created a State Law Reporting Bureau, under the direction of a single State Reporter, appointed by the Court of Appeals. The State Reporter was charged with publishing the decisions of all the courts of New York. The constitutional authority was exercised in 1938 (L 1938, ch 494). The offices of State Reporter and Supreme Court Reporter were merged, and the Law Reporting Bureau was established with Louis J. Rezzemini serving as the first State Reporter under the modern model of official reporting in New York.

1930 Publishing Contract Above:
Five-year contract signed on November 26, 1930 by Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo.


1990 Publishing Contract signing Above:
Signing of 1991-1995 publishing contract with Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (LCP) on October 23, 1990. From left: George Taylor (LCP), Principal Legal Editor Amy M. Schneider, Fred Romano(LCP), Assistant State Reporter William J. Hooks, and seated, State Reporter Frederick A. Muller.
MARIE DEBS CAULEY, LEGAL EDITOR
   Marie Debes Cauley holds the distinction of being the first female legal editor at the Law Reporting Bureau. In 1954, prior to her service at the Bureau, Mrs. Cauley worked for the Department of Civil Service, where she was offered the position of department head. She left Civil Service in 1961 to join the Bureau, where she worked until retiring in 1978. Mrs. Cauley was a graduate of the College of New Rochelle in 1947 and Fordham Law School in 1951. Today, one third of the attorneys at the Bureau are female.


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