New York State
Unified Court System
FUTURE COURT APPEARANCE SYSTEM
INSTRUCTIONS
(You can print out these instructions by clicking on your browser's
print button)
THE HOME PAGE
(To view larger image - right click on picture - click on view image)
(On a Macintosh - click and hold on the picture - drag to "open this
image")
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You can always return to the Home Page by clicking on the house
in the right hand corner of the screen.
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Click on Instructions to get to these instructions.
SEARCH BY ATTORNEY NAME
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Type in a name of a law firm or an attorney's name.
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Upper case, lower case and mixed case are acceptable. To search
for Smith, Green and Jones enter either
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Smith or SMITH or smith
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Green
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Jones
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Smith, Green and Jones
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NOTE: Smith, Green & Jones (with the ampersand) is a different search
than Smith, Green and Jones (with the and).
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Smith, Green
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NOTE: Smith Green (without the comma) is a different search and
would not find Smith, Green with the comma.
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To speed the search type in an entire word rather than a partial
word (i.e. Adler rather than Adl)
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In many counties attorneys are not listed individually. Instead
their law firm is listed.
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If you cannot find an attorney, try the law firm name instead.
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To further limit the search you can optionally click on the down arrow
of the drop down box and select one of 13 counties.
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a blank in the OPTIONAL Enter County box is the default and all counties
will be searched.
SEARCH BY ATTORNEY
NAME
RESULTS OF THE SEARCH
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The search returns all cases that have court appearance dates in the future
(or 15 days back from the day of the search)
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Which matches the search term you entered.
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20 matches are returned at a time. To see the next 20 matches click
on the Next button on the bottom of the screen (not visible in the
example above).
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To see further information about a particular case, click on an
index number.
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To see the names and address of all attorneys on a particular and to further
navigate to a calendar of future court appearance for that attorney/firm
click on one of the underlined letters in the Who
for column.
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To return to the previous screen click the back button on your browser.
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To return to the Home Page click on the
home on the upper right of the screen.
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Click on a firm/attorney name in the "Attorney/Firm"
column for name and address information for all attorney on the case and
to access the future court appearance calendar.
RESULTS OF CLICKING ON ATTORNEY/FIRM
ATTORNEY DETAIL SCREEN
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The name, address and phone numbers, as maintained by the court in the
county where the case is pending, is shown.
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NOTE: Different courts in different counties may
maintain different addresses and phone numbers for a law firm or attorney.
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To view a calendar of future appearance for an attorney/firm in the Supreme
Court for the county indicated on the screen, click on the picture
of a calendar in the appropriate row.
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Use the browser's back button to return to the previous screen.
RESULTS OF CLICKING ON PICTURE OF CALENDAR
CALENDAR SCREEN
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All future appearances for an attorney/firm in the Supreme Court in a particular
county are listed.
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To return to the prior screen click the browser back button.
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To return to the Home Page click on the house in
the upper right corner of the screen.
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To see detailed case information click on the underlined index number and
case name.
RESULTS OF CLICKING ON CLICK FOR APPEARANCE INFO
APPEARANCE DETAIL SCREEN
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All appearances for the case are listed. The next appearance is listed
first.
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Use the browser back button to return to the previous screen.
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Click on the house on the upper right of the screen to return to the Home
Page.
SEARCH
BY INDEX NUMBER OR PLAINTIFF OR DEFENDANT
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Optionally, enter the county for your search. The '%' is the default
and will search all counties.
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Type in any index number. Leave out leading zeros and slashes.
(e.g. 0008167/1997 should be entered 81671997).
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OR type the first plaintiff's name and/or the first defendant's
name. For example,
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To find VOGT, BRIAN v. RATTO, DAVID P you could type in the plaintiff
box:
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VOGT or Vogt or vogt (the result would be all cases in all counties where
the first plaintiff has a last name of Vogt).
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VOGT, BRIAN or vogt, brian or Vogt, Brian (the result would be all cases
in all counties where the first plaintiff has a first name of Brian and
a last name of Vogt). Note: The comma is necessary.
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To find the same case(s) using the defendant box you could type in:
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RATTO or Ratto or ratto (the result would be all cases in all counties
where the first defendant has a last name of Ratto).
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RATTO, DAVID P or Ratto, David P or ratto, david p or RATTO, DAVID etc.
(the result would be the case(s) where the defendant has a first name of
David, middle initial of P and a last name of Ratto).
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NOTE: The comma is necessary. Also NOTE that there is no
period after the P for this particular case. If a P is enter with
the period this case would not be found.
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NOTE: To speed this search only the short title of a case is
searched. You cannot search on a coplaintiff or codefendant or a
third-party. This has been implemented to speed the search of 60
million records.
SEARCH BY INDEX NUMBER OR PLAINTIFF OR DEFENDANT
NAME
RESULTS OF SEARCH
The search returns all cases that have court appearance dates in the future
(or 15 days back from the day of the search)
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Which matches the search term you entered.
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20 matches are returned at a time. To see the next 20 matches click
on the Next button on the bottom of the screen (not visible in the
example above).
To see further information about a particular case, click on an
index number.
To see the names and address of all attorneys on a particular and to further
navigate to a calendar of future court appearance for that attorney/firm
click on one of the names in the Attorney/firm
column.
To return to the previous screen click the back button on your browser.
To return to the Home Page click on the
home on the upper right of the screen.
This screen returns the same information as the Attorney
Results Screen in a slightly different order.
