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January 24, 2002 |

State Bar to Approve New Slate of Officers

L ong Island attorney A. Thomas Levin is slated for election today as president-elect of the New York State Bar Association, putting him on track to assume the presidency on June 1, 2003.
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March 12, 2010 |

Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders

NEW YORK (AP) ? Thousands of ground zero workers who claim to have been sickened by dust and debris from the World Trade Center will have 90 days to decide whether to accept a settlement worth up to $657.5 million.
4 minute read
November 27, 2009 |

Environmental Law

Michael B. Gerrard, professor and director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and special counsel to Arnold & Porter, analyzes Save the Pine Bush Inc. v. Common Council of the City of Albany, in which five of the seven members of the high court made clear that the lower courts had taken an 18-year detour from what their predecessors had intended in Society of the Plastics Industry v. County of Suffolk. In so doing, the Court explicitly addressed one of the two major scenarios in which the old ruling was seen to have created an obstacle, and it showed the path to pleading around the obstacle in the other scenario.
11 minute read
June 12, 2003 |

Plaintiff appeals from an order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louise Gruner Gans, J.), entered July 9, 2002, which denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on liability pursuant to Labor Law �240(1).
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Mayer Brown Can't Save Wells Fargo From Woodshed Walloping Over Tax Shelter
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The Federal Circuit Upholds a ruling that Wells Fargo, with assistance from its lawyers at King & Spalding, engaged in an abusive tax shelter when it tried to claim $115 million in tax deductions using a "SILO" leasing transaction. The bank also faces a derivative suit stemming from that ill-considered tax decision.

September 03, 1999 |

Directed Verdict in Scaffold Case Reversed

All five judges on an appellate panel agreed Manhattan Justice Stephen G. Crane erred when he ordered a directed verdict, which resulted in a $2.5 million verdict stemming from an industrial accident. Under New York's Labor Law the plaintiff, Leon Holt, would have been entitled to a directed judgment if he fell 'through' the scaffolding -- an key point that was contested.
2 minute read
April 25, 2003 |

MurphY v. Nutmeg Insurance Co.

24 minute read
February 29, 2008 |

Environmental Law

Stephen L. Kass and Jean M. McCarroll, partners at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, write that despite recent congressional activity, many have concluded, correctly in our view, that there is little prospect for meaningful federal action on climate change until late 2009. Therefore New York state and city, corporations and individuals have moved ahead with their own climate change initiatives--welcome evidence that people recognize the urgent need for action to maintain a livable planet.
12 minute read
May 20, 2008 |

Bloomingdales Inc., plaintiff-appellant v. New York City Transit Authority, defendant-respondent

Continuous Wrong Doctrine Cited in Reinstatement Of Trespass, Nuisance Claims Over Pipe's Severance
16 minute read
October 17, 2005 |

Morales, plaintiff-appellant-respondent v. Spring Scaffolding, Inc., defendant-respondent-appellant

Labor Law �240(1) Applies to Construction Worker Injured in On-Site Accident During Lunch Break
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