41.   Judith S. Kaye, the chief judge of New York state and a friend of Bloomberg, will administer his oath.

42.   Kaye is the fourth chief judge to attempt court merger.

43.   Korman is the chief judge in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

44.   Judge Thomas C. Platt, who recently completed a seven-year term as chief judge in Brooklyn, has had a reputation as a hands-off, detached administrator.

45.   Judge William G. Young, chief judge of the district court, said a Girl Scout troop canceled a planned visit to his courtroom last week.

46.   Kaye wants to simplify the system, merging the nine tiers into two, a goal that eluded the last three chief judges.

47.   Lerner, a Republican and former chief administrative judge of the Queens courts, was recommended by his local judicial screening panel for its appeals court.

48.   Laity Kama of Senegal, the president, or chief judge, of the tribunal, said he abhorred comparisons between his organization and the one in The Hague.

49.   Lindsey and the other lawyers met briefly with U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington.

50.   Logic suggests we now have one furious chief judge.