A woman bitten by a dog can proceed with her suit against the shelter from which she adopted the animal, on claims that it failed to tell her the dog had been adopted and returned twice before.
Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Feinman (See Profile) said Alice Tighe—who was bitten in the face by her black Labrador retriever Lucky—raised factual issues of concealed fraud that survived a summary judgment motion from North Shore Animal League America, which calls itself the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.
