But how are their decisions to be known?

SOURCES AND REFERENCES

Samuel Hand

102 NY 743 (1886).

Hiram E. Sickels

1.	David Addison Harsha, Noted Living Albanians, at 377 (1891).
2.	John Foster Kirk, A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and American Authors (1899).
3.	146 NY 420 (1895).

Edmund H. Smith

Ashley Compton, First Deans of Barnard College, Emily James Smith Putnam.

Edwin A. Bedell

192 NY iv (1908)

Alvah S. Newcomb

Commemorative Biographical Record, 1896, Ulster County.

J. Newton Fiero

1.	John Foster Kirk, A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and American Authors (1899)
2.	Albany Law School 1851-2001: A Tradition of Change (Mount Ida Press 2000).
3.	256 NY 693 (1931).

Louis Rezzemini

1.	F. Alan Craigie, Began Career 50 Years Ago: Rezzemini, State Reporter, Studied Law in 1888 in Office of Predecessor, [Albany, N.Y.] Knickerbocker News, June 3, 1938.
2.	289 NY vii (1943).

Edward J. Dimock

1.	Judges of the United States Courts.
2.	684 Fed Supp lxxv.

James M. Flavin

1.	38 NY2d vii (1977)
2.	62 NY2d vii (1984).

John T. Fitzpatrick

76 NY2d ix (1991).

Frederick A. Muller

1.	Gary Spencer, Behind The Books, Reporter Selects, Cuts Official Opinions, NYLJ, Feb. 28, 1991, at 1 col 3.
2.	92 NY2d xv (1999).
3.	American Bar Association, Judicial Opinion Writing Manual, Committee Members, at 179 (1991).

Office Locations
Generally

1.	F. Alan Craigie, Began Career 50 Years Ago: Rezzemini, State Reporter, Studied Law in 1888 in Office of Predecessor, [Albany, N.Y.] Knickerbocker News, June 3, 1938.
2.	The Albany Directory (for years 1820 - 1942).

Editorial Technology

1. Writing instruments: The History of the Pen; The History of Pencils.

2. Paper: The Peculiar History of Paper.

3. Lighting: History of Lighting; Daniel W. Mattausch, David Melville and the First American Gas Light Patents, reprinted from The Rushlight (Dec. 1998).

4. Computers: Frederick A. Muller, Electronic Assembly and Distribution of the Official Reports of New York State Court Decisions (paper presented at 1992 International Conference on Computers and the Law, Oct. 1, 1992)(on file at New York State Law Reporting Bureau).

Two Centuries of Leadership and Service
Leadership in Official Reporting

1. On the national influence of New York decisions, see generally Steward E. Sterk, The New York Court of Appeals: 150 Years of Leading Decisions, in There shall be a Court of Appeals: 150th Anniversary of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, at 50 (1997).

2. Justice Story quotation is from Letter from Joseph Story to William Johnson (May 16, 1824) in 1 Life and Letters of Joseph Story, at 428-429 (1851).

Above:
Gayle M. Palmer, Senior Administrative Secretary, at her desk.

Above:
1870s picture of State Reporter Edmund H. smith and his family, with the Honorable James C. Smith, Edmund Smith's father, seated center.

Above:
Linda Wittenburg, from West, a Thomson Company, and Senior Legal Editor Katherine D. LaBoda, reviewing 200th Anniversary booklet pages.

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