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Texas Justices Sidestep Sophisticated-User Issue in Silicosis Case
After a wait of almost two years, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled 6-2 in a silicosis case that a flint supplier had no duty to warn a company of the risks of working around silica dust because those risks had been commonly known for years. However, the court left unresolved a key issue: whether the "sophisticated user doctrine" relieved the supplier of a duty to warn its customers' employees that inhaling silica dust can be fatal.
Panel Finds 'Excessive' City Fine for Poaching Antenna From Trash
"It is undisputed that [the defendant] violated the relevant Administrative Code provision - he removed and transported a recyclable object using a motor vehicle," Justice Rosalyn Richter wrote for the First Department. "Nevertheless, under the specific circumstances here, we conclude that the mandatory $2,000 penalty amounts to an unconstitutionally excessive fine."
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HUD Lawyer Uses Civil Rights Experience to Help Others
While studying philosophy and political science at York College, Evelyn Davis Golden became active in the civil rights movement and in political campaigns, which made her want to become a lawyer. "I wanted to do civil rights law -- what I do now," said Golden, who handles fair housing complaints for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development civil rights section in Atlanta. Golden enjoys her work because of the opportunity she has to help people.
Condemnation and Tax Certiorari
M. Robert Goldstein and Michael Rikon, partners of Goldstein, Goldstein, Rikon & Gottlieb, write that the U.S. Supreme Court has recently granted certiorari to the Florida Supreme Court in a claimed takings case which has an unusual twist to it - the basis for the claimed inverse condemnation is a decision of Florida's highest court interpreting the state's law of real property. It is clear that the land use community, which usually follows this type of application, was totally surprised that it was granted. After all, what the highest court of a state says is the law relating to its real estate is the law, by definition. So why did the U.S. Supreme Court take the case?
Pantalone v. County of Fulton, 6:10-CV-913
Publication Date: 2011-04-20 Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Court: U.S. District Court, Northern District Judge: Judge David N. Hurd Attorneys: For plaintiff: OFFICE OF ELMER R. KEACH, III, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Amsterdam, NY; OF COUNSEL: BRETT A. ENGEL, ESQ. For defendant: MURPHY, BURNS LAW FIRM, Albany, NY; OF COUNSEL: THOMAS J. HIGGS, ESQ. Case number: 6:10-CV-913
Cite as: Pantalone v. County of Fulton, 6:10-CV-913, NYLJ 1202490643996, at *1 (NDNY, Decided April 15, 2011)Judge David N. HurdDecided:
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