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Matter of Bano (Commissioner of Labor) (2024 NY Slip Op 06396) Matter of Bano (Commissioner of Labor) 2024 NY Slip Op 06396 Decided on December 19, 2024 Appellate Division, Third Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau p

Matter of Lewis v New York City Hous. Auth. (2020 NY Slip Op 06228) Matter of Lewis v New York City Hous. Auth. 2020 NY Slip Op 06228 Decided on October 29, 2020 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New Yor

Matter of Park off Broadway, LLC v New York City Water Bd. (2024 NY Slip Op 00937) Matter of Park off Broadway, LLC v New York City Water Bd. 2024 NY Slip Op 00937 Decided on February 22, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department Published

Matter of Park off Broadway, LLC v New York City Water Bd. (2024 NY Slip Op 00937) Matter of Park off Broadway, LLC v New York City Water Bd. 2024 NY Slip Op 00937 Decided on February 22, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department Published

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION TO DISMISS AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE MCMAHON, District Judge. Background Plaintiff Steven M. Hastings (“Hastings”) sustained serious injuries from electric shock while working on a television transmitter on Illinois Mountain in Highland, New York on September 24, 1998. I

607 F.3d 18 (2010) Tony HARRIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Warden C-95, C.O. Miller, John Doe # 1, John Doe # 2, Defendants-Appellees. Docket No. 09-0081-pr. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued: April 12, 2010. Decided: June 2, 2010. *19 Justine M. Mongan, Elizabeth S. Losey, (Jo

681 F.Supp.2d 274 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and The Vulcan Society, Inc., for itself and on behalf of its members; Marcus Haywood, Candido NuÑz, Roger Gregg, individually and on behalf of a class of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant. No. 07-cv-2067 (NGG)(RLM). United States District Court, E.D. New York.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER NICHOLAS G. GARAUFIS, District Judge. In this case, Plaintiff United States of America (the “Federal Government”) as well as the Vulcan Society, Inc. (the “Vulcan Society” or the “Vulcans”), Marcus Haywood, Candido Núñez and Roger Gregg (the “Individual Plaintiffs”) have brought suit to challenge the use by the City of New York of two written examinations in the screening and selection

OPINION AND ORDER SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge: I. INTRODUCTION In this consolidated multi-district litigation (“MDL”), plaintiffs seek relief from contamination, or threatened contamina*584tion, of groundwater from various defendants’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”) and/or ter

Marinelli v New York Methodist Hosp. (2022 NY Slip Op 02993) Marinelli v New York Methodist Hosp. 2022 NY Slip Op 02993 Decided on May 4, 2022 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant t

SACK, Circuit Judge: These appeals present what appear to be two issues of first impression in this Circuit. First, whether a defendant who repeatedly moves to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, but then withdraws from the litigation after those motions are denied, is permitted to attack an ensuing default judgment on the grounds that it is void for lack of personal jurisdiction. Second, whether a federal district cou

08-4804-cv; 09-1345-cv City of New York v. A-1 Jewelry & Pawn, Inc. 1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 3 August Term, 2009 4 (Argued: March 11, 2010 Final Submission: April 20, 2010 5 Decided: May 4, 2011) 6 Docket Nos. 08-4804-cv; 09-1345-cv 7 (consolidated for disposition) 8

OPINION AND ORDER NELSON S. ROMÁN, District Judge. Plaintiff Edward Morales (“Plaintiff’ or “Morales”), pro se, commenced the instant action against Defendants State of New York; State University of New York (“SUNY”); State University of New York, Binghamton College (“SUNY Bingham-ton”); State University of New York, Purchase College (“SUNY Purchase”); Thomas Schwarz, President of SUNY Purchase; Melis

Matter of Imandt v New York State Unified Ct. Sys. (2019 NY Slip Op 00595) Matter of Imandt v New York State Unified Ct. Sys. 2019 NY Slip Op 00595 Decided on January 30, 2019 Appellate Division, Second Department Publi

Devine, J. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McNamara, J.), entered March 16, 2015 in Albany County, which, in a combined proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 and action for declaratory judgment, granted respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition/complaint. Petitioners were employed as tax preparers between 2009 and 2011. Respondent Department

810 F.Supp.2d 446 (2011) Gail MURTAUGH, Individually and d/b/a Crosby Hill Auto Recycling; Richard R. Murtaugh; Murtaugh Recycling Corp.; Richard O. Murtaugh; and Flood Drive Props., Inc., Plaintiffs, v. State of NEW YORK; Pete Grannis, Comm'r of Envtl. Conservation; Cnty. of Oswego; Benjamin Conlon; Richard Brazell; Maureen Leary; Op-Tech Envtl. Servs., Inc.; William Simpson; and Adm'r Andrea Rhonda Miller, Defendants. No.

SACK, Circuit Judge: This litigation is the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history’s worst industrial catastrophe: the 1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Those clai

OPINION AND ORDER LORNA G. SCHOFIELD, District Judge: Before the Court is New York and Presbyterian Hospital’s (the “Hospital”) Motion to Dismiss the complaints filed in two cases, which have been consolidated for pre-trial purposes. Drs. Henry Earle Childers, IV and George Bino Rucker, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated (the “Childers Plaintiffs”), brought the first action a

342 F.Supp.2d 160 (2004) TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA, LOCAL 100, AFL-CIO; Roger Toussaint, as President of Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100, AFL-CIO; Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO; Sonny Hall, as President of Transport Workers Union of America; AFL-CIO; Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 726, AFL-CIO; and Angelo Tanzi, as President of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 726, AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANS

757 F.Supp.2d 144 (2010) ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, Plaintiff, v. Sanford M. BOLTON, Hygrosol Pharmaceutical Corp., and Spiridon Spireas, Defendants. No. 08-CV-5039 (NGG)(JMA). United States District Court, E.D. New York. December 10, 2010. *152 Michael Joseph Keane, John E. Becker, Garfunkel Wild P.C., Great Neck, NY, for