Procedural Intelligence · New York — Federal Courts in Full, State Bench Listed
Every New York federal court. Every rule with its source.
Most legal platforms tell you what the law says. BenchPath tells you what the court actually requires you to do — verified, versioned, searchable, with the source attached. New York opens with its nine federal courts in full — the four district courts, the four bankruptcy courts and the Second Circuit, each with its local rules, standing orders and judges' individual practices — with the New York Law Library, and with the state bench listed county by county from the court system's 2026 roster. The state courts' own rules and part rules are not yet covered, and the county pages say so.
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The New York Constitution and the Consolidated Laws, the Unconsolidated Laws and the Court Acts — among them the Civil Practice Law and Rules, the Criminal Procedure Law, the Family Court Act and the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act — verbatim from the Legislature's Open Legislation service, each section with its source receipt.
- NY Const · Law content up to date as of June 5, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionThe Constitution of the State of New YorkBrowse the text →
- CPLR · Law content up to date as of July 3, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionCivil Practice Law and RulesBrowse the text →
- CPL · Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionCriminal Procedure LawBrowse the text →
- Family Court Act · Law content up to date as of August 21, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionFamily Court ActBrowse the text →
- SCPA · Law content up to date as of September 18, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionSurrogate's Court Procedure ActBrowse the text →
- Judiciary Law · Law content up to date as of August 28, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionJudiciary LawBrowse the text →
- Domestic Relations Law · Law content up to date as of August 7, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionDomestic Relations LawBrowse the text →
- EPTL · Law content up to date as of September 25, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionEstates, Powers and Trusts LawBrowse the text →
- Penal Law · Law content up to date as of October 23, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation) editionPenal LawBrowse the text →
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Judicial districts
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New York counties mapped
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Counties with a listed bench
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Published courts
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Published rules
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Published New York judges
Inventory counts are live database rows · the published rules are the federal courts' · a county's state bench is listed from the court system's 2026 roster at medium confidence · the state courts' own rules and part rules are not yet covered — see the full coverage & gaps report
The published record · the federal courts in New York
Local rules, standing orders and individual practices, read at the source.
Practice in New York's federal courts runs on each court's local rules, the standing and general orders in force and the individual practices each judge publishes. BenchPath reads all three for the four district courts, the four bankruptcy courts and the Second Circuit — each instrument fetched from the court's own files, composed verbatim with its citation, and anything that cannot be verified is held with a named reason, not guessed. The state courts' own rules and part rules are not yet covered.
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Published courts
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Counties with a listed bench
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AI-governance instruments tracked
62 of 62 counties with a listed bench · district by district
New York, county by county
Each county's state bench — Supreme Court justices and the judges of the County, Family, Surrogate's, City and District Courts and the New York City courts — is listed from the Office of Court Administration's roster of judges released in January and February 2026, at medium confidence until each seat is read against the court's own page. The county courts' rules and part rules are not yet covered, and each county page says so. Click through to any county.
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High-confidence rules, source attached
Judge Pamela K. Chen (E.D.N.Y.) — Practices and Rules: 1. Case Filings
Practices and Rules of Judge Pamela K. Chen, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, as the judge's own court page links it: section 1. Case Filings — verbatim from the judge's own document (official PDF, sha-custodied; one embedded font serves its characters shifted by 29 code points, decoded and read against the page images). Judge-specific requirement: applies in cases before this judge alongside the Local Rules and the federal rules.
Judge Pamela K. Chen (E.D.N.Y.) — Practices and Rules: 2. Communications with Chambers
Practices and Rules of Judge Pamela K. Chen, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, as the judge's own court page links it: section 2. Communications with Chambers — verbatim from the judge's own document (official PDF, sha-custodied; one embedded font serves its characters shifted by 29 code points, decoded and read against the page images). Judge-specific requirement: applies in cases before this judge alongside the Local Rules and the federal rules.
Judge Pamela K. Chen (E.D.N.Y.) — Practices and Rules: 3. Motion Practice in Civil Cases
Practices and Rules of Judge Pamela K. Chen, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, as the judge's own court page links it: section 3. Motion Practice in Civil Cases — verbatim from the judge's own document (official PDF, sha-custodied; one embedded font serves its characters shifted by 29 code points, decoded and read against the page images). Judge-specific requirement: applies in cases before this judge alongside the Local Rules and the federal rules.
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Rules are public — but fragmented across court websites, local-rule books, standing orders and each judge's own practices. The moat is the pipeline: each covered New York court is closed against the court's own records, with every gap named and its proof dated.
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Official court, clerk, judge, and division sources are registered with their own check cadence, set source by source, and every check writes an attestation receipt to the coverage ledger. Documents behind published rules are fetched, hashed, and archived — HTML, PDFs, and administrative orders.
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Rules are extracted, cited, and human-reviewed before publishing as verified. Every card shows its confidence level and last-verified date.
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Hourly monitoring records source changes. Follow a judge, division, county, or rule and change records land in your alert inbox.
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New York AI filing rules, tracked from the covered courts.
7 New York AI-governance instruments in the covered federal courts — provisions of judges' individual practices and court orders on the use of generative AI in filings, each verified against the issuing court and logged on a public timeline. The Florida, Texas and California trackers run beside it.Latest: Judge Nelson S. Roman (S.D.N.Y.) — Individual Practices in Civil Cases: 7. Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)
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