On September 9, the first all-African American panel of judges was seated by the Appellate Division, Second Department to hear oral arguments. Justice Cheryl Chambers, the second female African American justice on the Brooklyn-based court and Associate Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson, who has been on the midlevel appeals court since April 2016, presided over the four-judge panel. The panel also […]

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