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White v City of New York (2020 NY Slip Op 05477) White v City of New York 2020 NY Slip Op 05477 Decided on October 06, 2020 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant

Matter of White v New York City Tr. Auth. (2021 NY Slip Op 05805) Matter of White v New York City Tr. Auth. 2021 NY Slip Op 05805 Decided on October 21, 2021 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York St

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert E. Torres, J.), entered August 12, 2015, which, upon renewal, denied defendant’s (NYCHA) motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant the motion as to the common-law negligence claim, and otherwise affirmed, without costs. Plaintiff seeks damages for injuries allegedly sustained by her disabled so

Per Curiam. *1526In the District Court, petitioners challenged a New York City rule regarding the transport of firearms. Petitioners claimed that the rule violated the Second Amendment. Petitioners sought declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of the rule insofar as the rule prevented their transport of firearms to a second ho

OPINION & ORDER PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: This decision resolves a summary judgment motion in this case of alleged police misconduct. Plaintiff Arturo Cruz brings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and New York law, alleging that the City of New York (the “City”), New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Officer Eugene Donnelly, and unidentified NYPD officials violated his civil rights under,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GREGORY H. WOODS, United States District Judge: Ms. Alyssa Lloyd worked for a number of years coordinating appointments for escorts. She asserts that the liaisons that she arranged were not sexual, but nonetheless, she was caught up in an undercover sting targeting suspected prostitution in her workplace. The officers who rushed in to arrest her and others did not know at first

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge Defendants the City of New York (“City”), the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Sergeant Ronald Smith (“Smith”) and Detectives James Connolly (“Connolly”) and James White (“White”) have moved, by way of letter motions, to be permitted to file under seal or redact certain documents and exhibits submitted to the Court in conjunction

OPINION AND ORDER KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge: Plaintiff New York Bankers Association, Inc. (“NYBA”) initiated this action on May 26, 2015, seeking (i) a declaratory judgment that City Local Law 38 for the Year 2012, entitled the Responsible Banking Act (the “RBA”), is preempted by federal and state law; and (ii) a permanent injunction prohibiting the operation and implementation of the

Sweeny, J. (dissenting). I dissent. The record clearly reflects a pattern of highly inflammatory, prejudicial and improper comments made by plaintiffs’ counsel during his summation. Taken as a whole, those comments deprived defendants, particularly the City of New York, of a fair trial. I would therefore remand this case for a new trial on all issues. There are certain well-settled principles established that ap

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann BriganttiHughes, J.), entered January 13, 2014, which denied the motions of defendant Westec Interactive Security, Inc. (Westec) and defendants White Castle System, Inc. and White Castle Management Co. (collectively White Castle) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and cross claims as against them, and granted the motion of defendants City of New York and Alfr

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland G. De-Grasse, J.), entered October 9, 2007, which, in an action by plaintiff tenant against defendant landlord for personal injuries allegedly caused by wetness on an interior stairway in the parties’ building, insofar as appealed from, granted defendant’s *401motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

OPINION AND ORDER KENNETH M. KARAS, District Judge. Plaintiff Andrew Vail, pro se, brought the instant Action in August 2012, and currently alleges three causes of action related to medical treatment he received while incarcerated under the care of the New York City Department of Corrections. Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. For the following reasons, the Co

MEMORANDUM DECISION BRICCETTI, District Judge. In January 2012, plaintiff James Tompkins was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree (“OGA”) and reckless endangerment in the second degree. Those charges were eventually dismissed. He now brings this action against the City of New York (the “City”) and four police officers employed by the City’s Departm

MEMORANDUM & ORDER MARGO K. BRODIE, District Judge: Plaintiff Gamien Batchelor brings the above-captioned action against Defendants City of New York, New York City Department of Correction (“DOC”), DOC Commissioner Dora Shiro, Assistant Commissioner Richard R. White, Director Dennis Wall, Deputy Director Alexis Castillo and Chief of Department Larry Davis, Sr., alleging claims of race and g

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered November 10, 2005, upon a jury verdict in defendant’s favor, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Plaintiff sustained personal injuries when she slipped and fell while descending a concrete stairway in a subway station, and plaintiff commenced this action against the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) claiming that it failed to maintain the stairway in a reason

In a proceeding pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e, inter alia, for leave to serve a late notice of claim and a related action to recover damages for personal injuries, the New York City Housing Authority appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dorsa, J.), dated January 9, 2006, which granted the petition for leave to serve a late notice of claim and denied its cross motion to dismiss the complaint. Ordered that

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant Stan Brzezinski appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hutcherson, J.), dated May 2, 2002, as denied his cross motion to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against him pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (5). Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the cross motion is grante

*359OPINION & ORDER ALISON J. NATHAN, United States District Judge Plaintiffs, a group of individuals, companies, credit unions, and trade associations affiliated with New York City’s medallion taxicab Industry, bring this action against the City of New York (the ‘“City”), the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (the “TLC”), and TLC Chai

Matter of Gedney Assn., Inc. v Common Council of the City of White Plains (2022 NY Slip Op 06005) Matter of Gedney Assn., Inc. v Common Council of the City of White Plains 2022 NY Slip Op 06005 Decided on October 26, 2022 Appellate Division, Second Department

LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge: On appeal from the district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss and a motion for summary judgment, this case presents two issues: (1) whether the due process rights of Plaintiffs-Appellants Terence Sudler (“Sudler”) and Timothy Batthany (“Batthany”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) were violated by a host of officers and employees of the New York State an