Join us on December 8 for the NDNY FCBA Annual Dinner & Meeting at The Crown Plaza Desmond Hotel, Albany! A limited number of tickets are now available for our Annual Dinner. The event will begin at 3 pm with a CLE, followed by the FCBA's Annual Meeting (for...
By FCBA President Adam J. Katz Our system of justice depends fundamentally on the skill, diligence, and commitment of the members of the federal judiciary. For the past seven years, our court was ably led by the Honorable Glenn T. Suddaby, an excellent trial judge and...
The FCBA’s Seventh Annual Constitution Contest received more than three-dozen entries from high school students across the Northern District. Seven high schools from four counties were represented this year: Bethlehem Central High School in Albany County, Cazenovia...
By Allison Magnarelli, J.D. Candidate 2023, Albany Law School This past June, the United States Supreme Court decided a constitutional challenge to a New York State firearms law in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111...
By Theodore Wells, J.D. Candidate 2025, SMU Dedman School of Law Procedural Background In National Shooting Sports Foundation v. James, fourteen gun industry members and a trade association (“Plaintiffs”) sued New York State Attorney General Letitia James...
By Hon. Andrew T. Baxter and Hon. Daniel J. Stewart, Co-Chairs of the NDNY CJA Committee The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York (“NDNY”) is actively soliciting applicants to join our Criminal Justice Act (“CJA”) panel,...
Please join The NDNY-FCBA First Decade Committee and the Judges of the Northern District of New York as we recognize Pro Bono Attorneys who have accepted an appointment to represent at least one civil litigant in the District Court for the Northern District of New...
Please join The NDNY-FCBA First Decade Committee and the Judges of the Northern District of New York as we recognize Pro Bono Attorneys who have accepted an appointment to represent at least one civil litigant in the District Court for the Northern District of New...
US SUPREME COURT: 2022-2023 PREVIEW “The Supreme Court Under Siege” with Joan Biskupic, CNN Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 1:30 to 4:15 p.m. In Person at Syracuse University College of Law, Dineen Hall, and Live-Streamed. Free and open to the public. Download flyer with links...
2022 Virtual POWER Act Event - September 15, 2022 DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PRO BONO SERVICES TO EMPOWER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING, VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING The United States District Court, for The Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit invites applications from qualified candidates for a 14-year appointment as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of New York in Albany, New York. The selection process will be confidential...