Appellate Division, Second Department
Attorney Discipline & Admission Review Committee 

 

1.
CJA's November 13, 2003 letter-memo to Appellate Division, 2nd Dept Presiding Justice Prudenti, & Associate Justices Krausman, Smith, Cozier --
"Fulfilling the mandate of Presiding Justice Prudenti's Committee examining whether the Second Department is "'acting fairly and equitably' when dealing with an attorney's right to practice law' by reviewing the dispositive case file evidence"
   (indicated copies to Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes, Barry Kamins, Esq., Second Dept. Committee on Character & Fitness, NY Civil Liberties Union, NYSBA President A. Thomas Levin, Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections)

   --  CJA's January 27, 2003 letter to Barry Kamins, Esq., co-chair Attorney Discipline Subcommittee
    -- CJA's February 3, 2003 letter to Mr. Kamins
    -- Mr. Kamins' March 17, 2003 letter to CJA
    -- Mr. Kamins' October 22, 2003 letter to CJA

         SEE:  Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)

    -- CJA's November 6, 2003 letter to Brooklyn District Attorney Hynes, co-chair, Admissions Subcommittee
         SEE: Correspondence-NYS Officials-D.A. Hynes



2.
(cc) 
CJA's November 25, 2003 letter to New York State Bar Association President A. Thomas Levin -- "EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: The New York State Bar Association's duty -- reinforced by your September 16, 2003 testimony before Chief Judge Kaye's Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections -- to confront case file evidence documentarily establishing the corruption of all safeguards for ensuring the integrity of judicial elections, including: (1) the unconstitutionality of New York's attorney disciplinary law, as written and as applied; and (2) the corruption of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct

           SEE:  Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)

 

3.
September 15, 2004 letter from the Principal Law Clerk of Appellate Division, 2nd Department Presiding Justice Prudenti

Appellate Division, 2nd Dept's  October 5, 2004 Press Release:
"Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department,
Makes Report on Attorney Admission and Discipline Available to Public"

    July 30, 2004 Report and Recommendations

4.
October 25, 2004 letter from the Principal Law Clerk of Appellate Division, 2nd Department Presiding Justice Prudenti

5.
October 25, 2004 letter to Doris L. Sassower from the Principal Law Clerk of Appellate Division, 2nd Department Presiding Justice Prudenti

6.
October 28, 2004 letter from the Principal Law Clerk of Appellate Division, 2nd Department Presiding Justice Prudenti

 

7.
January 20, 2005 receipt of return of files
from Appellate Division, 2nd Department Justice Cozier

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September 2005
"Second Department Adopts New Disciplinary Procedures"
(Legal Ethics Reporter)

 

 

2015 FOIL/Records Request: 

CJA's July 10, 2015 letter to OCA Records Access Officer: 
"Records Request: Committee to Review the Procedures of the Committtees on Character and Fitness and the Grievance Committees of the Appellate Division, Second Department, Etc."

OCA's August 27, 2015 response   enclosure

 

 

 

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