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State Courts -
New York - January 16, 2007
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Harris v. State of New York, 2005-04998, (Claim No. 105724),
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Where it was clear that the claimant's conviction was vacated on the basis of newly discovered evidence, claimant's claim to recover damages pursuant to Court of Claims Act § 8-b was not "jurisdictionally defective" for failure to explicitly identify CPL 440.10(1)(g), and the claimant's request to amend the claim should have been granted.
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Kaufman v. Bauer, 9126N, Index 570057/04,
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided , January 16, 2007, Entered
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Overview: Because an expert's affirmation sufficiently established a meritorious cause of action, because the patient sufficiently demonstrated law office failure to warrant an excuse of delay, and because there was no evidence of an intent to abandon the action, the civil court properly restored the case to the trial calendar under 22 NYCRR § 208.14(c).
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Keese v. Imperial Gardens Assoc., LLC, 2005-08242, (Index No. 7191/03),
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Because a snow removal contractor placed snow on a sidewalk contrary to its standard operating procedure, and because the owner and its managing agent failed to establish that they did not have actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition, they were not entitled to summary judgment in a pedestrian's slip-and-fall action.
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Launders v. Steinberg, 8273, Index 17356/88,
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided , January 16, 2007, Entered
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Overview: A compensatory and punitive damage award against a child's father after the father struck the child and then left her without medical attention and went out to dinner as she lay on a bathroom floor over the next eight to ten hours was affirmed. A $ 5 million award was just and fair compensation for the "tormented" hours preceding the child's death.
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Ledgin v. Ledgin, 2006-03105, (Index No. 203200/04),
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Husband/father was not entitled to a hearing on the issue of whether his child support and maintenance arrears should have been reduced based on wife/mother's alleged interference with his visitation rights because, under Domestic Relations Law § 241, interference with visitation rights was not a ground for cancellation of child support arrears.
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Levinson & Santoro Elec. Corp. v. Morse Diesel Intl., 2005-09425, (Index No. 28662/02),
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment was affirmed in favor of contractor in breach of contract action against construction manager, as construction manager did not establish, prima facie, that it did not operate as general contractor for construction project, which would have rendered "pay-if-paid" provision of contract violative of public policy and unenforceable.
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Lim v. Tiburzi, 2006-00470, (Index No. 2492/04),
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, January 16, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Order granting summary judgment for defendants in action for personal injuries resulting from motor vehicle accident was reversed because medical evidence supplied by plaintiff was sufficient to overcome defendants' contention, in their summary judgment motion, that plaintiff did not sustain serious injury within Insurance Law § 5102(d)'s meaning.
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