New York Judiciary Law Section 21 - Judge other than of court of appeals or appellate division not to decide question argued during his absence.

  21.  Judge other than of court of appeals or appellate division not
  to decide question argued during his absence. A judge other than a judge
  of the court of appeals, or of the appellate  division  of  the  supreme
  court,  shall  not  decide  or  take part in the decision of a question,
  which was argued orally in the  court,  when  he  was  not  present  and
  sitting therein as a judge.

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