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 that owed to the public generally—apply to claims of injury inflicted through municipal negligence, or does it apply only when the municipality’s negligence lies in…
February Session
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 would have put it on notice of the employee’s criminal propensity.
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.
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 support a claim under Labor Law § 241(6).
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 for any loan in an RMBS trust, and thereby excuse the plaintiff’s failure to comply with a contractual precondition to invoking the repurchase remedy, when…
White v. Cuomo
Decision: 2022.03.22 2021.10.14 (rearg) Argument: 2022.02.08 vid. tr. 2021.10.05 vid. tr. Whether article 14 of the Racing Pari-Mutuel and Breeding Law violates article I, section 9 of the New York State Constitution.