Terms Used In N.Y. Civil Practice Law and Rules R9402

  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Every application for admission to practice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision one of section appellate division; character committees” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2023″ statecd=”NY” title=”judiciary”>ninety of the judiciary law by a person who has been certified by the state board of law examiners, in accordance with the provisions of section four hundred sixty-four of said law, shall be referred by the appellate division to the committee for a district in its judicial department. Every application for admission to practice which is made on motion without the taking of the bar examination, pursuant to rules of the court of appeals and the provisions of paragraph b of subdivision one of section ninety of the judiciary law, by a person already admitted to practice in another jurisdiction, shall be referred by the appellate division to the committee for a district in its judicial department.