Small Claims Court helps individuals or corporations resolve disputes when the amount of the claim is $10,000 or less. All defendants must have an address in New York City. Get Small Claims Court information, including locations and hours of operation. Learn about case types handled by Small Claims Court.
If your claim is over the maximum, you may sue in Civil Court. There is a Small Claims Court in every city, town and village in New York State. To file a claim you must fill out forms and provide the correct business name, legal name, and business address.
All judgments and court records are filed in the County Clerk Office in the County where the lawsuit was filed. You can go in person to the County Clerk Office in the County where you live to ask if a judgment has been entered against you. Most counties also allow you to search online.
To begin an action in Small Claims Court, a person, or someone acting on his or her behalf, must come to the Small Claims Court Clerk's office in the proper county and fill out a statement of claim. To find out where the clerk's office is located in your county, click on Locations.
I won a judgment against the bank. The court granted a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. We have to make a judgment about the value of their services. The judgment of the editors is final.
We judge others on their faces, dress and behaviour. This is an innate survival instinct. “She is too loud!” “I would love to date him/her.” “He is too scruffy”, “She s really !”, “look at the scars/burns on his face!” By the time we become adults we have also added bias through our experiences, whether right/wrong.
As a human being, you depend on your own good judgment and the good judgment of others in everything you do. For example, in order to avoid an accident, you depend on your good judgment and driving skill as well as those of the driver in the car approaching you.
I won a judgment against the bank. The court granted a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. We have to make a judgment about the value of their services. The judgment of the editors is final.
This chapter began by considering examples of how members of stereotyped groups may be judged and treated inconsistently: The “highly competent” female employee receives lesser consequential performance evaluations than her comparable male colleague (Biernat et al., 2011), the Black job applicant must jump through ...