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
2nd JD
Kings (Brooklyn)
9th JD
Dutchess
Orange
Putnam
Rockland
Westchester
10th JD
Nassau &
Suffolk
11th JD
Queens
13th JD
Richmond (Staten Island)
