News and Events for the
Southern District of New York

December 23, 2024 - December 27, 2024

April 24, 2023 - July 24, 2023

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York is requesting quotations for an open market procurement to install and program a Biamp DSP in a court conference room.
 
RFQ Number: D02NYSD2023-04242023

September 16, 2020 - October 1, 2020

June 25, 2020 - June 25, 2021

In the Matter of the Appointment of Sarah Netburn as Full-Time Magistrate Judge

December 23, 2019 - March 20, 2020

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.

There are two vacancies in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan and one vacancy in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn.

Both the full vacancy announcement and the application form are posted on the Court’s website at www.ca2.uscourts.gov

June 28, 2019 - January 1, 2020

March 7, 2017

2.0 NYS CLE Credits in Professional Practice (Free)
Appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

May 20, 2016

On May 20, 2016, the Court will host a Town Hall meeting to answer questions and solicit comments and suggestions for the § 1983 Plan in White Plains. 

Judges, representatives from the New York City Law Department, and the Director of the Court’s ADR Program will attend. The meeting will be held in the Courthouse at 300 Quarropas Street, Jury Assembly Room, from 12-1:30. Lunch will be served. 

If you plan to attend please RSVP to Rebecca_Price@nysd.uscourts.gov by Monday May 9. 

If you cannot attend, and wish to comment, please send comments to Rebecca_Price@nysd.uscourts.gov by May 20, 2016. 

Local Civil Rule 83.10 can be viewed by going to http://nysd.uscourts.gov/mediation under “Mediation Rules and Procedures”.

April 1, 2016

The current terms of the office of United States Magistrate Judges Debra Freeman and Gabriel W. Gorenstein are due to expire on March 1, 2017. 

The United States District Court is required by law to establish a panel of citizens to consider the reappointments of the magistrate judges to a new eight year term

October 30, 2015

April 15, 2015

Please join The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in commemorating the life and federal service of the Hon. Harold Baer, Jr.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, Ceremonial Courtroom, 4:00 pm

June 30, 2014

The Board of Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has selected Judith C. McCarthy to serve as a Magistrate Judge for a term of eight years. She will serve on the bench at the Charles L. Brieant United States Courthouse in White Plains.

April 21, 2014

Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska has announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District Court will hold a special session on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to commemorate the first session of the Court held 225 years ago.

February 25, 2014

The Federal Bar Association's Federal Litigation Section and the Southern District of New York chapter present a panel discussion on the Mykonos case, a three-year trial in Berlin's High Criminal Court that resulted in the conviction of four individuals accused of murdering Iranian dissidents in a Berlin restaurant. Presented in conjunction with the SDNY Lawyers Without Rights exhibit, running from February 13 - April 11 at 500 Pearl Street.

In conjunction with the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association of the Southern District of New York, and the German Federal bar, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will host an exhibit depicting how Jewish lawyers were barred from courts beginning in 1933 and how individual rights and the rule of law were neglected during the Nazi era. This exhibit is located in the lobby of the federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street; it runs from February 18 through April 11.