Decision: 2022.06.16 Argument: 2022.05.19 vid. tr. Whether the trustee of a residential mortgage-backed securities trust is a “plaintiff” within the meaning of CPLR 205(a) when the prior action was commenced…
2021 – 2022 Term
Adar Bays, LLC v. GeneSYS ID, Inc.
Decision: 2021.10.14 Argument: 2021.08.31 vid. tr. Whether a stock conversion option that permits a lender, in its sole discretion, to convert any outstanding balance to shares of stock at a…
Anderson v. Anderson
Decision: 2021.12.16 Argument: 2021.11.18 vid. tr. Where nuptial agreement is not contemporaneously acknowledged by both parties at the time they sign the agreement, whether the parties must reaffirm agreement for…
Aybar v. Aybar
Decision: 2021.10.07 Argument: 2021.09.01 vid. tr. Whether the Appellate Division improperly ignored this Court’s ruling in Bagdon v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 217 N.Y. 432 (1916), and…
Batavia Townhouses, Ltd. v. Council of Churches Housing Development Fund Company, Inc.
Decision: 2022.05.22 Argument: 2022.04.21 vid. tr. Whether General Obligations Law § 17-105(1) or § 17-101 is the applicable provision to revive an otherwise expired statute of limitations on a mortgage loan.
Bonczar v. American Multi-Cinema
Decision: 2022.04.28 Argument: 2022.03.16 vid. tr. Whether plaintiff was entitled to partial summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law § 240 (1).
Columbia Memorial Hospital v. Hinds
Decision: 2022.05.19 Argument: 2022.04.20 vid. tr. Whether an employee whose employer pays insurance premiums on his behalf is entitled to receive cash consideration when the insurer converts from a mutual…
Cutaia v. Board of Managers of 160/170 Varick Street
Decision: 2022.04.28 Argument: 2022.03.16 vid. tr. 2021.03.24 vid. tr. Whether plaintiff established entitlement to summary judgment on the Labor Law § 240(1) claim; plaintiff was injured when he received electrical…
Dawson v. New York University
Decision: 2022.04.07 Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether a challenge to expulsion from a university is properly characterized as a claim under CPLR article 78 and thus subject to a four-month…
Donohue v. Cuomo
Decision: 2022.02.10 Argument: 2022.01.05 vid. tr. Whether the collective bargaining agreement between New York State civil-service employees and the State gives those employees a vested right to have the State’s…
Estate of Kainer v. UBS AG
Decision: 2021.12.16 Argument: 2021.11.17 vid. tr. Whether Supreme Court (i) permissibly granted dismissal on the basis of forum non conveniens before determining defendants’ challenge to personal jurisdiction, and (ii) correctly…
Ferreira v. City of Binghamton
Decision: 2022.03.22 Argument: 2022.02.08 vid. tr. Does the “special duty” requirement—that, to sustain liability in negligence against a municipality, the plaintiff must show that the duty breached is greater than…
Healy v. EST Downtown
Decision: 2022.04.28 Argument: 2022.03.16 vid. tr. Whether plaintiff was engaged in an activity protected by Labor Law 240 when he fell from a ladder.
Hunters for Deer, Inc. v. Town of Smithtown
Decision: 2022.02.10 Argument: 2021.01.04 vid. tr. Whether the Environmental Conservation Law preempts a local ordinance regulating bow-and-arrow use.
J.P. Morgan Securities v. Vigilant Insurance Co.
Decision: 2021.11.23 Argument: 2021.10.06 vid. tr. Whether an insurance policy’s exclusion for “fines or penalties imposed by law” applies to an order of disgorgement issued by the Securities and Exchange…
Konkur v. Turkish Cultural Center & Highway Education, Inc.
Decision: 2022.02.10 Argument: 2021.01.06 vid. tr. Whether a private right of action exists under Labor Law § 198-b, which makes it illegal for any person to demand or receive a kickback…
Lividini v. Goldstein
Decision: 2021.10.14 Argument: 2021.09.02 vid. tr. Whether, for purposes of a motion to change venue, venue was properly placed in Bronx County under CPLR 503 (a) or (d) when an…
Maple Medical, LLP v. Scott
Decision: 2022.05.19 Argument: 2022.04.20 vid. tr. Whether the cash consideration paid as part of the conversion from a mutual insurance company to a stock insurance company belongs to a physician…
Matter of Aurora Associates LLC v. Locatelli
Decision: 2022.02.15 Argument: 2021.01.06 vid. tr. Whether a loft unit is subject to rent regulation because it is located in a pre-1974 building containing six or more residential units, even…
Matter of Callen v. New York City Loft Board
Decision: 2022.02.15 Argument: 2021.01.05 vid. tr. Whether respondent Loft Board has the authority to deny a tenant’s request to withdraw an application for the legal conversion of a loft from…
Matter of Claim of Johnson v. New York City
Decision: 2022.04.21 Argument: 2022.03.17 vid. tr. Whether an award for loss of function of one part of a limb can properly be deducted from a later award for loss of…
Matter of Claim of Rexford
Decision: 2021.11.23 Argument: 2021.10.07 vid. tr. Whether the Special Fund for Reopened Cases was responsible for paying claim for Workers’ Compensation Benefits in 2016 despite the Fund’s closure to new…
Matter of Claim of Verneau
Decision: 2021.11.23 Argument: 2021.10.07 vid. tr. Whether the Special Fund for Reopened Cases was responsible for paying claim for Workers’ Compensation Benefits in 2017 despite the Fund’s closure to new…
Matter of DCH Auto v. Town of Mamaroneck
Decision: 2022.06.16 Argument: 2022.05.19 vid. tr. Whether an “aggrieved person” may bring a challenge to real estate taxes under RPTL article 7 when the person is neither the owner of…
Matter of Endara-Caicedo v. New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
Decision: 2022.02.15 Argument: 2021.01.06 vid. tr. Whether Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1194(2) permits the refusal of a motorist arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of…
Matter of Harkenrider v. Hochul
Decision: 2022.04.27 Argument: 2022.04.26 vid. tr. Whether New York’s recent plan of reapportionment and redistricting by the Legislature based on the 2020 federal census violates the state Constitution.
Matter of Koegel
Decision: 2021.12.16 Argument: 2021.11.18 vid. tr. Whether extrinsic evidence can cure a defect in the acknowledgment of a prenuptial agreement; law of the case.
Matter of Liuni v. Gander Mountain
Decision: 2022.04.21 Argument: 2022.03.17 vid. tr. Whether an award for loss of function of one part of a limb can properly be deducted from a later award for loss of…
Matter of Mental Hygiene Legal Service v. Delaney
Decision: 2022.04.21 Argument: 2022.03.17 vid. tr. Whether the law requires the Department of Health and Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to place a minor with developmental disabilities in a…
Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project v. Breheny
Decision: 2022.06.14 Argument: 2022.05.18 vid. tr. Whether the writ of habeas corpus is available to a nonhuman animal.
Matter of Talbot V. v. Kingsboro Psychiatric Center
Decision: 2022.06.14 Argument: 2022.05.18 vid. tr. Whether Mental Hygiene Law § 9.31(b) requires a hospital to disclose to a patient the patient’s entire clinical record in advance of an involuntary-treatment…
Moore Charitable Foundation v. PJT Partners, Inc.
Decision: 2022.02.15 (rearg) Argument: 2022.02.09 vid. tr. Whether an employer whose employee commits fraud is liable for fraud under an apparent-authority theory if the employer knew of no facts that…
Nemeth v. Brenntag North America
Decision: 2022.04.26 Argument: 2022.03.15 vid. tr. Whether plaintiff presented sufficient evidence that her peritoneal mesothelioma was caused by respirable asbestos contained in talcum powder used by plaintiff over an 11-year…
Ortiz v. Ciox Health LLC
Decision: 2021.11.18 Argument: 2021.10.06 vid. tr. Whether N.Y. Public Health Law § 18(2)(e) provides a private right of action for damages when a medical provider violates the provision limiting the…
Plymouth Venture Partners v. GTR Source
Decision: 2021.12.16 Argument: 2021.11.16 vid. tr. Whether under New York law, a judgment debtor suffers cognizable tort damages when a judgment creditor has a marshal or sheriff seize the judgment…
Revis v. Schwartz
Decision: 2022.03.17 Argument: 2022.02.09 vid. tr. Whether the parties agreed to arbitrate the threshold question of the arbitrability of their dispute; whether nonsignatory defendants may compel arbitration.
Sassi v. Mobile Life Support Services, Inc.
Decision: 2021.10.12 Argument: 2021.09.01 vid. tr. Whether the New York State Human Rights Law allows employers to refuse to rehire employees who were convicted of crimes during their initial term…
Schoch v. Lake Champlain OB-GYN, P.C.
Decision: 2022.05.19 Argument: 2022.04.20 vid. tr. Whether an employee whose employer pays insurance premiums on her behalf is entitled to receive cash consideration when the insurer converts from a mutual…
Toussaint v. Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J.
Decision: 2022.03.22 2021.04.01 (rearg) Argument: 2022.02.10 vid. tr. 2021.02.11 vid. tr. Whether the requirement in the Industrial Code that a “designated person” operate a power buggy is sufficiently specific to…
U.S. Bank National Association v. DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc.
Decision: 2022.03.17 2021.05.06 (rearg) Argument: 2022.02.08 vid. tr. 2021.04.27 vid. tr. Whether the doctrine of relation back permits a residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) plaintiff-trustee to assert otherwise untimely notice-based claims…