Federal Judiciary

GOLDEN SOMBRERO
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 02-13-08 

February 5th wasn’t such a super Tuesday for Kings County Justice Francois A. Rivera. He was reversed by the Appellate Division four times on that day in a diverse array of cases.

Over the last couple of years, Rivera hasn’t been reversed an inordinate number of times, at least not by the standards of the reversal prone Kings County bench. And the errors spotlighted in the recent spate of reversals didn’t occur all at once. The four trial court rulings in question were handed down between 2005 and last year. But unanimous appellate panels happened to release their opinions overturning Rivera’s rulings in the four cases on the same day.

Full post as published by Judicial Reports on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).