New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Legitimacy of Domestic Violence Parts and Bronx Criminal Division
In their monthly column in the New York Law Journal, Roy Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss the Court of Appeals’ decision in People v. Correa, rejecting the challenges to the subject matter jurisdiction of the Integrated Domestic Violence parts of the Supreme Courts over misdemeanors charged in an information, and to the Bronx Criminal Division of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, over cases commenced in New York City Criminal Court. They also discuss the Court of Appeals’ decision in City of New York v. Maul, upholding the certification of a class of developmentally disabled youths.