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Update: Queens Civil Motions Returnable 2/11/05 (Lincoln's Birthday Observed) Adjourned to 2/14/05

While she was waiting for the calendar call in Queens Civil yesterday, Swati Mantione heard the Part Clerk announce that all motions erroneously adjourned in Queens Civil to Friday, Feb. 11, 2005, have been automatically adjourned by the Court to Monday, Feb. 14, 2005.  The Court did not take into account that Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 is a Court Holiday on which Lincoln's Birthday will be observed.  As always, we are available for your per diem motion and conference appearances in Queens Civil Court every day of the week.

Starting Monday, November 15, 2004, $125 for per diem appearances within NYC, $150 for per diem appearances outside of NYC

Starting Monday, November 15, 2004, our new fee structure features two-tier pricing: $125 for per diem appearance in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island and $150 for per diem appearances in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester.  Click here for a printable copy of our rate sheet (requires Adobe Acrobat reader).

Electronic Access Available to Federal Criminal Case Files

Thanks to Tom Mighell at inter-alia.net, be aware that any criminal case file document that is available to the public at a Federal Courthouse is now available online as of Nov. 1, 2004.  See the article describing the availability at the October 2004 edition of The Third Branch, the Newsletter of the Federal Courts

Post-Election Thoughts

. . . America is really the property of the world, and not only of the Americans, who, among other things, have the habit of diluting the wine of their mythical ideas with the water of the American Way of Life. America was something dreamed by philosophers, vagabonds, and the wretched of the earth way before it was discovered by Spanish Ships and popluated by colonies from all over the world. The Americans have only rented it temporarily. If they don't behave well, if the mythical level is lowered, if their movies don't work any more and history takes on an ordinary day-to-day quality, then we can always evict them. Or discover another America . . .

-- Sergio Leone, American Film, June 1984, p. 23