Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.19 vid. tr. Whether a landowner is liable in negligence for an attack on a resident in a building with a broken lock when the victim is the subject of a preplanned attack by attackers who are intent on gaining access to the building.
April Session
Gottwald v. Sebert I
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.18 vid. tr. Whether the plaintiff is a general or limited public figure; whether there is a “sham” exception to the litigation privilege, the pre-litigation privilege, or the privilege codified at Civil Rights Law § 74 and, if so, whether that exception applies.
Gottwald v. Sebert II (Anti-SLAPP)
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.18 vid. tr. Whether the legislature intended for its 2020 amendments to the anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation (antiSLAPP) law {see Civil Rights Law §§ 70-a, 76-a) to apply retroactively to claims pending at the time the amendments became effective.
Lynch v. City of New York
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.19 vid. tr. Whether time worked in previous public-sector jobs counts toward the pensions of New York City police officers who became police officers on or after July 1, 2009.
Matter of St. Lawrence County v. City of Ogdensburg
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.18 vid. tr. Whether Ogdensburg Local Law 2-2021, which requires St. Lawrence County to enforce the City’s delinquent taxes and make the City whole for uncollected City-levied taxes, is preempted by the Real Property Tax Law and not authorized by RPTL 936; whether the local law violates New York State Constitution Article…
Matter of Teamsters Local 445 v. Town of Monroe
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.20 vid. tr. Whether there is a statutory, constitutional, or public policy prohibition against arbitrating a dispute regarding the termination of an employee in an “exempt class” under Civil Service Law § 41(1)(c).
Scurry v. NYCHA
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.04.19 vid. tr. Whether defendant property owner’s negligence was proximate cause of decedent’s death and injuries to others.