By Jason Grant | June 16, 2017
A split First Department panel allowed the lawsuit against Montefiore Medical Center, brought by a 17-year-old who suffered a pulmonary embolism and brain damage, to proceed based largely on a physician's statements that, "if the nurse practitioner had removed the NuvaRing, and referred plaintiff for further assessment, all of the subsequent injuries and complications suffered by plaintiff would have been avoided."
By Jason Grant | June 16, 2017
A medical malpractice action alleging that a hospital failed to diagnose a man's cancerous wound must be dismissed because he filed a notice of claim too late, a state appellate court ruled Thursday.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 14, 2017
A Second Department panel affirmed a lower court's dismissal motion that let Capital One off the liability hook in an alleged confidence scheme orchestrated by an employee against a customer.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 13, 2017
The Second Circuit reversed a ruling that found a pollution settlement with several oil companies and a district attorney in California precluded legal action by the local water board.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 13, 2017
The Third Department has allowed the wife of a man who suffered complications during heart surgery to access investigative findings from a state Department of Health review of the procedure that were previously withheld by the agency.
By Marcia Coyle | June 12, 2017
A federal appellate court on Monday handed President Donald Trump his second major defeat in a month after finding his executive order suspending immigration from six Muslim nations and the U.S. refugee program violated federal law.
By Jason Grant | June 8, 2017
Chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko will not be transferred to a South Florida sanctuary after a Manhattan appeals court on Thursday joined four previous state courts in refusing to recognize the animals' legal "personhood."
By Rebecca Baker | June 8, 2017
A public employee union in New York City has the right to obtain discovery materials in disciplinary proceedings, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 6, 2017
RICO Claims Against Energy Firm's Principals Properly Dismissed; Predicate Acts Insufficient
By Jason Grant | June 6, 2017
An animal rights group cannot use a mandamus action to compel New York City to stop ultra-Orthodox Jews from openly practicing the ritual of Kaporos, in which chickens' throats are sliced on public streets, a divided appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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