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).
Pending Cases
ACE Securities Corp v. DB Structured Products
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 by the trust’s certificate holders.
AH Wines v. C6 Capital Funding
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether the one-year statute of limitations from CPLR 215(6) applies to an action to set aside a judgment on the grounds of usury.
Alcantara v. Annucci
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether DOCCS is required to provide community-based (rather than on-campus) programs for individuals who are housed at a residential treatment facility (RTF) while they find SORA compliant housing; whether on-campus programs provided by DOCCS complied with Correction Law § 73.
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 it to be valid.
Anderson v. Commack Fire District
Decision: 2023.04.20 Argument: 2023.02.08 vid. tr. If a driver may be liable for operating an emergency vehicle only if they do so with reckless disregard for the safety of others (under VTL § 1104), may a municipality be vicariously liable for the driver’s operation of that vehicle under a plain negligence standard (under GML § 205-b) or…
Bank of America v. Kessler
Decision: 2023.02.14 Argument: 2022.01.04 vid. tr. Whether the courts below properly held that the inclusion of certain language in a 90-day notice sent to the borrowers in this foreclosure action, in addition to the language required to be included under RPAPL 1304, violated the “separate envelope” provision in RPAPL 13.04
Bazdaric v. Almah Partners LLC
Decision: n/a Argument: 2024.01.11 vid. tr. Whether the Appellate Division properly granted summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s Labor Law § 241(6) claim because a plastic covering placed on the stairs of an escalator to protect it from dripping paint was integral to the work of painting.
Brettler v. Allianz Life Insurance
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.10.18 vid. tr. Whether a failure to comply with the provisions of a life insurance policy requiring written notice of assignment can, under New York law, render an assignment ineffective.
Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Must a general liability insurance carrier defend an insured in an action alleging discrimination under a failure-to-accommodate theory?
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 insurance company converts to a stock insurance company. Related case: Schoch v. Lake Champlain OB-GYN, P.C.; Maple Medical, LLP v. Scott
Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc. v. Westport Insurance Corp.
Decision: n/a Argument: 2024.01.10 vid. tr. Whether the actual, suspected, or threatened presence of COVID-19 in plaintiff’s restaurants caused “direct physical loss or damage” to the properties within the meaning of the insurance policy that defendant issued to plaintiff.
Delgado v. State of New York
Decision: 2022.11.17 Argument: 2022.10.18 vid. tr. Whether Part HHH of Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2018, which created the Committee on Legislative and Executive Compensation, violates the New York State Constitution.
Everhome Mortgage Co. v. Aber
Decision: 2022.11.17 Argument: 2022.10.19 vid. tr. Whether the courts below properly determined that the foreclosure action was time-barred.
Favourite Ltd. v. Cico
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether a trial court has the discretion to grant plaintiff leave to amend a complaint after the Appellate Division has ordered the complaint dismissed with direction to enter judgment accordingly; at time plaintiffs sought leave to amend the time to commence a new action expired including the CPLR 205(a)…
Federal National Mortgage Association v. Jeanty
Decision: 2022.11.17 Argument: 2022.10.18 vid. tr. Whether General Obligations Law § 17-101 or CPLR 205(a) revives the plaintiff’s otherwise untimely foreclosure action.
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 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…
Golobe v. Altchek
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether a party can satisfy the open, notorious, and hostile elements of adverse possession when he held only a one-half interest in real property as a co-tenant in common and was unaware for more than twenty years that he was not in exclusive possession of the property because of…
Grady v. Chenango Valley Central School District
Decision: 2023.04.27 Argument: 2023.03.15 vid. tr. Whether defendants were entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff assumed the risk of injury; plaintiff alleged injuries sustained after being struck by baseball during practice drill were caused by defendants’ negligence.
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.
Henry v. New Jersey Transit Corp.
Decision: 2023.03.21 Argument: 2023.02.07 vid. tr. Whether defendant properly invoked sovereign immunity for the first time on appeal when that invocation was based on binding case law decided after trial.
Hetelekides v. County of Ontario
Decision: 2023.02.14 Argument: 2022.01.03 vid. tr. Whether tax foreclosure proceeding, commenced against deceased individual, was nullity; alleged due process violations.
Howell v. City of New York
Decision: 2022.11.22 Argument: 2022.10.20 vid. tr. Whether New York City owed the plaintiff a special duty to protect her from her ex-boyfriend. Related cases: Maldovan v. County of Erie; Ferreira v. City of Binghamton.
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 Commission.
James B. Nutter & Co. v. County of Saratoga
Decision: 2023.03.21 Argument: 2023.02.08 vid. tr. Whether County’s notice of a tax foreclosure proceeding was sufficient.
Lelchook v. Société Générale de Banque au Liban SAL
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether an entity that acquires all of another entity’s liabilities and assets, but does not merge with that entity, inherits the acquired entity’s status for purposes of specific personal jurisdiction.* *One of the authors of this website is among the counsel for respondent in this case.
Maldovan v. County of Erie
Decision: 2022.11.22 Argument: 2022.10.20 vid. tr. Whether municipality owed a special duty to plaintiff; whether New York recognized a cause of action for negligent investigation. Related cases: Ferreira v. City of Binghamton; Howell v. City of New York.
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 who was a policyholder of the medical-malpractice insurance policy or to the medical practice that employed the physician and paid the premiums on the policy….
Matter of Aaron Manor Rehabilitation v. Zucker
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether Department of Health impermissibly made changes to certain Medicaid reimbursement rates retroactive in violation of PHL § 2807(7).
Matter of Agramonte v. Local 461, District Council 37, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether the petition, alleging violations of the unincorporated union’s constitution, was properly dismissed under General Associations Law § 13 and Martin v. Curran, 303 N.Y. 276 (1951), for failure to allege that each union member ratified or authorized the alleged violations of the union constitution concerning the election of…
Matter of Alvarez v. Annucci
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether a Department of Corrections and Community Service (DOCCS) prison facility was a legitimate residential treatment facility to house a sex offender after his release.
Matter of Appellate Advocates v. NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Decision: 2023.12.19 Argument: 2023.11.15 vid. tr. Whether in response to a FOIL request, an agency may use the attorney-client privilege to shield from disclosure general training materials that are concededly unrelated to any specific matter and are not based on confidential, particularized information; whether in response to a FOIL request, an agency may withhold materials…
Matter of Black v. New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.10.17 vid. tr. Whether the determination by the Tax Appeals Tribunal that petitioner was responsible for the corporation’s tax liability has a rational basis and is supported by substantial evidence.
Matter of Borelli v. City of Yonkers
Decision: 2022.12.15 Argument: 2022.11.16 vid. tr. Whether retired disabled firefighters and fire officers are entitled to compensation for night differential, check-in pay, and holiday pay under General Municipal Law § 207-a(2).
Matter of Bowers Development, LLC v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency
Decision: 2023.12.14 Argument: 2023.11.14 vid. tr. Whether the Oneida County Industrial Development Agency properly determined that installing a parking facility for a medical office building was a “commercial” purpose within the Agency’s corporate purpose such that the agency could use its eminent-domain powers.
Matter of Brookdale Physicians’ Dialysis Associates, Inc. v. Department of Finance of the City of New York
Decision: 2023.01.10 (rearg) Argument: 2022.01.05 vid. tr. 2024.01.09 vid. tr. Whether a building a building owned by a nonprofit organization qualifies for tax-exempt status even though it is used by a for-profit entity to provide services.
Matter of City of Syracuse v. Syracuse PBA Inc.
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.10.18 vid. tr. Whether police discipline is a permissible subject of collective bargaining in Syracuse because provisions of the Second Class Cities Law committing police discipline to the control of local authorities existed before the enactment of relevant provisions of the Civil Service Law were repealed or otherwise superseded by later-enacted local…
Matter of City of Yonkers v. Yonkers Fire Fighters, Local 628
Decision: 2022.12.15 Argument: 2022.11.16 vid. tr. Whether union’s grievance about city’s decision to stop paying benefits for retired disabled firefighters was arbitrable.
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 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 function of a different part of the same limb.