The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court

(American Bar Association) The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is known as the “Mother Court” because it is the country’s oldest federal court — older even than the United States Supreme Court. It also is known as America’s greatest trial court, the site of many seminal court cases involving everything from organized crime to freedom of speech. In The Mother Court, Zirin traces how important events and cases in the titular Court’s 225-year history helped shape the nation. Zirin is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the host of the cable TV talk show “Conversations in the Digital Age.”