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- ↑ "Appellate Division - First Judicial Department". www.courts.state.ny.us.
- 1 2 "Justice Rosalyn Richter Receives the LGBT Bar's Dan Bradley Award". 4 September 2018.
- ↑ "The State of the Appellate Division, First Department | New York Law Journal".
- ↑ "Associate Justice Rosalyn Richter Joins Arnold & Porter in New York". 12 October 2020.
- ↑ "Janet Weinberg, Rosalyn Richter: Weddings". The New York Times. August 12, 2011.
- ↑ Sandomir, Richard (September 14, 2018). "Janet Weinberg, 63, Dies; Advocate for Gay Causes and the Disabled". The New York Times.