Among the cases of historical interest heard in the Court have been claims arising from the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the Cold War espionage cases of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Alger Hiss, and the government's challenges to the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and the New York Times's Pentagon Papers.įor a listing of current U. Patterson, Sr., former Attorney General Michael B. Those who have served as judges of the Court include Justice Sonia Sotomayor, former Secretary of War Robert P. The District and its successor, the Southern District of New York, have sat continuously in New York, NY, since 1789.
It was the first court to sit under the new United States Constitution, preceding the United States Supreme Court by a few months. The District of New York held its first session on the first Tuesday of November 1789 at the Old Royal Exchange in lower Manhattan presided over by Judge James Duane, who was appointed by President Washington.
a written or printed representation of the letter D or d. any spoken sound represented by the letter D or d, as in dog, ladder, ladle, or pulled. The Court hears cases in Manhattan, White Plains, and Poughkeepsie, New York. the fourth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York encompasses the counties of New York, Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan and draws jurors from those counties.