Decision: 2022.10.27 Argument: 2022.09.07 vid. tr. Whether the courts below erred by permitting plaintiffs to conform the pleadings to the proof to assert a claim for reformation, based on mutual mistake, that would have been untimely but for the application of the relation back doctrine at CPLR 203(f).
September Session
Matter of City of Long Beach v. NYS Public Employment Relations Board
Decision: 2022.10.25 Argument: 2022.09.07 vid. tr. Whether the Civil Service Law requires public employers to negotiate procedures before firing employees who have been absent from work for one year due to injury or disease.
Matter of Claim of Green v. Dutchess County BOCES
Decision: 2022.10.27 Argument: 2022.09.14 vid. tr. Whether a claimant’s non-schedule award under Workers’ Compensation Law (WCL) § 15(3)(w), “payable during the continuance of such disability [and] subject to reconsideration of the degree of such impairment,” abates upon their death arising from causes other than the injury itself such that WCL § 15 (4) does not…
Matter of D.L. v. S.B.
Decision: 2022.10.25 Argument: 2022.09.13 vid. tr. Whether the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children applies when a child is in custody of a child-protective agency and the parent petitioning for custody lives outside New York State; whether Family Court properly denies a custody petition when the out-of-state child-protective agency refuses to consent to the…
Matter of Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York, Inc. v. NYS Department of Financial Services
Decision: 2022.10.20 Argument: 2022.09.08 vid. tr. Whether an amendment to Insurance Regulation 187 requiring insurance companies, agents, and brokers to consider “the best interests of the consumer” in recommending life-insurance and annuity policies is unconstitutionally vague.
Sage Systems, Inc. v. Liss
Decision: 2022.10.20 Argument: 2022.09.13 vid. tr. Whether a clause in a partnership agreement allowing partners to recover attorney fees for disputes arising from another partner’s bad faith applies to intra-partnership disputes or only to third-party claims.