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Sure it's Super Bowl weekend, but during halftime wouldn't it be appealing to take in some verbal sparring at the NYS Court of Appeals web site. There you can view five webcast oral arguments [9/21/04: now seven webcasts] before the Court. While you're at it, check out the sites for all the Departments of the Appellate Division - First, Second, Third, and Fourth.
You might begin with the USPDR Property Reports and Information site at www.uspdr.com. At their site, you can search property records for all counties within New York State by street or owner name.
To see whether Courts are open or closed, you can always check the home page of the OCA Court system at http://nycourts.gov/home.htm. Courts in Nassau and Suffolk are closed today, Wednesday, January 28, 2004, but Courts in New York City and New York State are OPEN, as of the announcement at 6:30 a.m. today.
As always, for accounts in good standing, we automatically discount your multiple appearances in the same Part at the rate of $25 per appearance.
Solution: Run the address (from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST) at the Property Address Search page of the NYC Department of Finance. In addition to obtaining the name of the property tax record owner, you can ascertain the block and lot number of the particular property. Try also running the block and lot number at the Office of the City Register search page. There you will find scanned images of documents on file related to the premises including deeds.
Check out the Department of Housing Preservation and Development online search page to find various types of building information.
Check the active licenses of electrical contractors, riggers, tower crane operators and more by using the "Skilled Trades Licensees Search" option at BIS menu page of the NYC Department of Buildings. The NYC DOB also maintains a listing of licensed architects, engineers, electricians, plumbers and others who have been subject to license discipline.
If you have a case containing an allegation of a defect against a particular motor vehicle, it may be worth your while to obtain the VIN number of the offending vehicle. Once obtained, go to google.com, enter the VIN number in the search line, and Google will give you a link to obtain the carfax.com report for that particular vehicle. You can also start your VIN search at carfax.com.
The New York Law Journal has put its version of Judges' Part Rules online. To access the rules, registration is required but access is free.
at the History and Politics Out Loud web site. There you can listen to other speeches of Dr. King in addition to several disparate political speeches spanning decades of history and politics.
