Kings County Supreme - Civil Term, 2nd JD: Motion/Trial Support

Motion Support/Trial Support

Motion Support/Trial Support Office
360 Adams Street, Room 227
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(347) 296-1694

Hours of Operation: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The Motion Support Office reviews and schedules all motions on notice (served on all parties), involving tort litigation. Motion Support reviews these as to content, form, and compliance with the relevant statute(s) and rules. The resulting orders from motions are processed and entered into the court’s computer and subsequently delivered to the County Clerk’s Office for filing.

In addition, this office reviews and processes Requests for Judicial Intervention, Notes of Issue, and Stipulations of Discontinuance or Settlement.

Our public information counter evaluates, accepts or returns submitted papers and assists the public with court rules and procedures.

To better assist you, we have created responses to our most Frequently Asked Motion Support/Trial Support Questions (FAQ's)

Updates

September 7th, 2010:
Commencing September 7, 2010, all new medical malpractice cases in which Maimonides Hospital/Medical Center or the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation is a defendant will be assigned to Justice Lawrence Knipel. Preliminary conferences and compliance conferences on these cases will be held before Justice Knipel rather than in the Intake Part and the Centralized Compliance Part.

August 13th, 2010:
Please be advised that foreclosure cases assigned to Justice Allen Hurkin-Torres, who has left the bench, will be assigned to Justices Johnny Lee Baynes and Noach Dear. Other cases assigned to Justice Hurkin-Torres will be randomly assigned to other judges in the Civil Term. In addition, starting September 7, 2010, Hon. Martin Schneier will preside over the City Trial Readiness Part (CTRP). The telephone directory has been updated to reflect these changes.

July 23rd, 2010:
Effective September 1st, 2010, motions in foreclosure actions should no longer be made returnable in the Foreclosure Motion Part. On or after this date, foreclosure motions should be made returnable directly to the assigned judge’s part. The Motion Support Office will then reschedule these motions to the assigned judge’s next available motion day for argument. Counsel may consult the New York Law Journal or the Unified Court System’s Future Court Appearance system for the rescheduled date.

Foreclosure motions that are accompanied by a new RJI, should be made returnable to "an IAS Part to be assigned". The Motion Support Office will randomly assign these motions and schedule them for the assigned judge’s next available motion day.

April 12th, 2010:
Effective immediately, all new Article 78 proceedings against the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) will be assigned to Judge Johnny Lee Baynes. Judge Baynes will be assigned to Part 68 and his motion calendar will be called in Room 1204 at the Civil Court Building, 141 Livingston Street. Counsel and litigants are advised to check either the New York Law Journal or the Unified Court System's Future Court Appearance System for the dates these motions have been scheduled for oral argument.

March 1st, 2010:
Commercial Foreclosure Actions (revision in italics):
Effective February 4th, 2010, new RJI's filed in commercial foreclosure actions will be assigned to Justice Robert J. Miller in Commercial Division Part 4. Litigants filing RJI's in these matters should clearly indicate that the nature of the proceeding is a “commercial foreclosure action” in either the “Other Commercial” or “Other Real Property” section of the RJI. Motions in these matters should be made returnable in Commercial Division Part 4, rather than the Foreclosure Motion Part, and counsel should consult either the Law Journal or the Unified Court System’s future court appearance system for the date assigned for oral argument. The RJI should also indicate whether there are any related actions pending in the Commercial Division so that an appropriate assignment of the case can be made.

If a commercial foreclosure action is assigned to a non-commercial part because the filing party did not designate the case as a "commercial foreclosure action" on the new RJI, any other party may apply by letter application (with a copy to all parties) to the Administrative Judge, within 10 (ten) days after receipt of a copy of the RJI, for a transfer of the case to Commercial Division Part 4. The determination of the Administrative Judge shall be final and subject to no further administrative review or appeal.

Commercial foreclosure actions, with RJIs filed prior to February 4, 2010, will remain with the previously assigned judge.

January 21, 2010:
Motions to vacate Notes of Issue, noticed to be heard on or after February 1, 2010, will no longer be scheduled in the Centralized Compliance Part. This includes motions that also seek ancillary relief. These motions will now be re-scheduled by the Motion Support Office to the assigned judge's next motion date for oral argument. Counsel should consult the Law Journal at http://www.nylj.com or the Unified Court System's future court appearance system for the date assigned for oral argument.