Justice Schack says Brooklyn has busiest court in U.S.
Kings County has the busiest civil court in the entire country, including thousands of jurisdictions between New York and California, according to New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack, who said tens of thousands of cases are heard at the Adams Street courthouse each year.
Between 15,000 and 16,000 foreclosures cases come before the court a year, Schack told Community Board 10 members Monday night. In addition, there are thousands of court cases involving negligence lawsuits stemming from accidents and thousands of contract disputes in which the conflicting parties ask the court to decide the outcome, Shack said.
“I have to put in a plug for increasing our budget,” he said, adding that he and his colleagues at the court work under tight fiscal constraints.