At her confirmation hearing, Rivera stressed that the work of an academic is to think outside the box and encourage other scholars and students to do the same by raising challenging questions and theories. She made clear that the work of a judge is to apply the law, and promised to do so if confirmed.
The first rulings in which she will take part are likely to appear in spring hand downs.
Ironically, the first attorney slated to appear before Rivera, John Cirando of Syracuse, is a member of the Commission on Judicial Nomination. The panel, which includes appointees of the governor, legislature and chief judge, evaluated 75 applications before submitting to Cuomo a list of seven from which he was required to choose. Cirando was scheduled to argue a breach-of-contract case, White v. Farrell, 43, yesterday.
@|John Caher can be reached at jcaher@alm.com.
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Brooklyn Carol
Wonderful choice! Court of Appeals needs new life, and much more progressive views.
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Avon
This article could benefit from some clarity as to dates.
(It seems most newspapers need help, inasmuch as they date articles by when they are posted electronically, and their date in print may not match; naming weekdays does not help many days - or years - later when no calendar is handy.)
The last word of the text is "yesterday," which evidently means Sunday Feb. 10. That is surely an error. (The article is dated Monday the 11th, and was dispatched by e-mail that same afternoon.)
And Paragraph 2 may be no better. Tuesday, February 12th, is a state Court holiday for Lincoln's Birthday. I see that the Court of Appeals' online calendar says it really is open Tuesday anyway, and if that's true, I'd say the reason merits note.
If and when a solution to this widespread news reporting problem becomes evident:
register the rights to it and sell it to the NY Times! Their online archive is sometimes utterly indecipherable (e.g., obituaries citing "yesterday" or naming recent weekdays).
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