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GOVERNOR PATAKI'S APPOINTMENTS TO THE APPELLATE DIVISIONS -- FOR WHICH THERE IS NO SENATE CONFIRMATION

 

ELEVATION OF WESTCHESTER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NICHOLAS COLABELLA TO APPELLATE DIVISION, 1st Dept.

CJA's June 2, 1997 letter to Governor Pataki  -- "RE: The public's right to basic information and your unworthy appointment of Justice Nicholas Colabella to the Appellate Division, First Department"    
   (indicated copies to all members of Gov's judicial screening committees, NY bar associations, Fund for Modern Courts, Common Cause, NYPIRG, Citizens Union, Gannett, NYLJ, NYT)
      Ex. A-1: Gov's press release announcing members of state judicial screening committee & 3 jud. appointments
      Ex. A-2: "Colabella to Appellate Division", NYLJ, 5/15/97
      Ex. B: Executive Order #11: Temporary Judicial Screening Committee
      Ex. C: Executive Order #10: Judicial Screening Committees
      Ex. D: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems", CJA's ltr to editor, NYT, 11/16/96
      Ex. E: "Pataki Names Panels for Judicial Screening", NYLJ, 3/6/97
      Ex. F: Gov's classified ads of judicial vacancies
      Ex. G: City Bar's Uniform Judicial Questionnaire
      Ex. H: 3/24/92 front-page correction in NYLJ, with Doris Sassower's letter to the editor
      Ex. I-1: "Where Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?", CJA's $16,770 op-ed ad, NYT, 10/26/94
      Ex. I-2: Doris Sassower's Director's Biography
      Ex J-1: "Appellate Selection Process Stirs Concern", NYLJ, 12/10/96
      Ex. J-2: 12/16/96 item, NYLJ
      Ex. K: NY Judge Reviews (1997-8 edition)

CJA's June 12, 1997 memo to indicated recipients of CJA's June 2, 1997 letter to Governor Pataki  -- "RE: Ensuring the public's right to basic information about the Governor's judicial appointments process and protecting it from unfit appointees"  

 

 
 

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