Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote that landlords in New York "have a common-law duty to take minimal precautions to protect tenants from foreseeable harm, including a third party’s foreseeable criminal conduct."
May 23, 2023 at 05:16 PM
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Litigation Reporter
Reacting to two New York appeals court decisions that conflicted about a city housing authority’s liability in targeted killings involving buildings with broken exterior door locks, the state’s highest court signed off on advancing both cases to jury trials on Tuesday.
The paired, 6-0 decisions were written by Court of Appeals Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, with newly arrived Associate Judge Caitlin Halligan not taking part in either decision.
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Eighteen-year-old Tayshana Murphy was fatally shot in 2011 in the stairwell of her apartment building in NYCHA’s Grant Houses complex. Photo: Wikimedia
