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  • Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chem., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Albin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amber R. Long (Levy Konigsberg, attorneys; Amber R. Long on the briefs)
    for defendant: Michael A. Scodro (Caruso Smith Picini and Mayer Brown, attorneys; Richard D. Picini, Michael A. Scodro, and Craig Woods, of the Illinois bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel and on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-5-21 (085939)

    Asbestos Manufacturers Could Be Liable to Individual Employees, Regardless of Instructions Supplied to Employers, Where Packaging Materials Had Inadequate Warnings

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • Furman v. DeSimone

    Publication Date: 2019-07-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Tompkins
    Judge: Justice Eugene Faughnan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff By: Raymond M. Schlather, Esq., Schlather, Stumbar, Parks & Salk, LLP, Ithaca, NY.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants Jeffrey DeSimone, M.D. Kenneth Cooper, M.D. Central New York Surgical Physicians, P.C. By: Paul Brown, Esq., Martin, Ganotis, Brown, Mould & Currie, P.C., Dewitt, NY. Counsel for Defendant Rao Kamani, M.D. By: Karen G. Felter, Esq., Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C., Syracuse, NY. Counsel for Defendant Crouse Hospital By: Christine A. Sullivan, Esq., Gale, Gale & Hunt LLC, Syracuse, NY.
    Case Number: 2013-1011

    Doctor Granted Reargument on Proximate Cause But Still Denied Summary Judgment

  • Steinbok v. City of N.Y.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Verna Saunders
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 153737/2013

    Jury Findings Taxi Liable for Accident, Plaintiff Did Not Sustain Serious Injury Supported

  • Walter Boss Inc. v. Roncalli Freight Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-01-02
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk County
    Judge: Justice James Hudson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiffs: Marshall M. Stern Esq., Judith M. Stern, Esq., Huntington Station, NY.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendants: Patricia Byrne Blair, Esq., Bluepoint, NY.
    Case Number: 020146/2012

    Parties That Prove Existence of Contracts and Breach Are Offset Against Each Other

  • Crooms v. County of Suffolk

    Publication Date: 2018-05-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk
    Judge: Justice Peter Mayer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiffs: Leo Tekiel, Esq., East Meadow, New York
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant Suffolk County: Dennis M. Brown, Suffolk County Attorney, Hauppauge, New York; Attorney for Defendant Town of Babylon: Joseph Wilson, Babylon Town Attorney, Lindenhurst, New York; Attorney for Defendants LIRR and MTA: Goldberg Segalla, Garden City, New York.
    Case Number: 12-3287

    MTA, LIRR Granted Summary Judgment Dismissing Rider's Slip and Fall Action

  • Jefferson v. Chevron Phillips

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-1018

    Chevron applied for turnover assistance, seeking to collect on a $1 million debt. Before the turnover hearing, ADJT sought to intervene, arguing that it owned 50% of the funds.

  • CHANG JIN PARK, ap, v. HEATHER HYUN-AH CHO, res

    Publication Date: 2017-09-22
    Practice Area:
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    Court: SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION: SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
    Judge: Chambers, J.P.; Cohen, Barros and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number:

    CHANG JIN PARK, ap, v. HEATHER HYUN-AH CHO, res — (INDEX NO. 707726/15)Ritholz Levy, LLP, New York, NY (Jonathan D. Plaut of counsel), for appe

  • NANCY ALMEIDA, ap, v. SERGIO ALMEIDA, def

    Publication Date: 2017-05-26
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    Court: SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION: SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
    Judge: Mastro, J.P.; Leventhal, Hall and Sgroi, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number:

    NANCY ALMEIDA, ap, v. SERGIO ALMEIDA, def — (INDEX NO. 18543/11) Appeal by the plaintiff from a nt of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Pam Jackman Brown, J.), entered March 9, 2015. The

  • Brown v. Williams, 18795-2015

    Publication Date: 2017-01-31
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    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk County, I.A.S. Part 17
    Judge: Justice Peter H. Mayer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Dennis M. Brown, County Attorney, Hauppauge, New York.
    for defendant: Attorney for Deft Williams: Rosanne Trabocchi, Esq., Veterans' and Servicemembers' Rights Clinic, Central Islip, New York.
    Case Number: 18795-2015

    Cite as: Brown v. Williams, 18795-2015, NYLJ 1202777935298, at *1 (Sup., SUF, Decided January 20, 2017) CASENAME Dennis M. Brown, County Attorney for the Cou