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  • Leach v. Castillo

    Publication Date: 2018-07-27
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Adam Silvera
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 162885/2015

    Triable Fact Issues on Defendants' Liability, Plaintiff's Serious Injury Bars Dismissal

  • Munoz v. Martinez

    Publication Date: 2018-07-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Kathryn Freed
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 154810/2017

    Referee's Report Establishing Victim's Entitlement to Remaining Settlement Funds Confirmed

  • People v. Woodruff

    Publication Date: 2018-07-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Chin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S115378

    Prospective juror erroneously excused for cause based solely on written questionnaire responses regarding death penalty

  • Chase Home Fin. v. Berger

    Publication Date: 2018-07-19
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Rockland
    Judge: Justice Rolf Thorsen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, PC, Lijue T. Philip, Esq.
    for defendant: For Defendant: Law Office of Jeremy Rosenberg, Jeremy Rosenberg, Esq.
    Case Number: 10454-2009

    Plaintiff Conceded Service of Process Erroneous; Dismissal of Foreclosure Action Granted

  • Jacobs v. Metro. Transp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-19
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Government | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Antonio Brandveen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiffs: by Paul Liggieri, Esq., Derek Smith Law Group PLLC
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendants: by Kevin McCaffrey, Esq., Mark D. Hoffer, Esq., General Counsel, The Long Island Railroad, Law Department
    Case Number: 606977/17

    Passengers' Assertion Fell Within Public Interest Exception to Notice of Claim Requirement

  • NY GO Express Inc. v. New York State Insurance Fund

    Publication Date: 2018-07-18
    Practice Area: Employment Compliance
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court, Warren County
    Judge: Justice Robert Muller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For petitioners: Peter Fidopiastis, Queensbury.
    for defendant: For respondent: Shannon C. Krasnokutski of counsel, Barbara D. Underwood, Acting Attorney General, Albany.
    Case Number: 64419

    StateInsurance Fund's Assessment of Additional Premiums Unless Freight Carriers Shown to

  • Yellowstone Capital v. Cent. USA Wireless

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Erie
    Judge: Justice Timothy Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff: Steven W. Wells, Esq., Of Counsel, Christopher Castro, Esq., Of Counsel, Hodgson Russ, LLP.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendant: Lewis A. Bartell, Esq., Of Counsel, Law Office of Lewis A. Bartell.
    Case Number: 811837/2017

    Agreements Not Usurious Loans; Vacating Confession of Judgment, Voiding Agreement Denied

  • Wade v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Winchester (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anna Green Cross, Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo (DeKalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0327

    Although the evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and related offenses arising out of the beating death of his girlfriend's 18-month-old son, the Court vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing because the trial court erred in failing to merge certain counts.

  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Cope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0313

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions related to the death of his brothers' roommate and the trial court did not err in admitting two statements defendant made to police after the murder.