Decision: 2023.04.20 Argument: 2023.03.16 vid. tr. Whether transfer of real property to attorneys in fact was improper gift, given that the attorneys of fact were related to the decedent.
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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 Nemeth v. K-Tooling
Decision: 2023.10.24 Argument: 2023.09.14 vid. tr. Whether the third prong of the relation-back doctrine applied to permit petitioners to add landowner as necessary party in amended petition filed after limitations…
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 Policarpio v. Rally Restoration Corp.
Decision: n/a Argument: 2022.04.19 vid. tr. Whether substantial evidence supports the Board’s determination that claimant failed to demonstrate labor market attachment after July 31, 2018.
Matter of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether video of prison can be withheld under the law-enforcement exemption to New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL); whether factual records, such as…
Matter of State of New York v. NYS Public Employment Relations Board
Decision: 2023.02.14 Argument: 2022.01.04 vid. tr. Whether PERB’s determination that the imposition of an application fee for promotional examinations was a mandatory subject of negotiation was rational and supported by…
Matter of State v. Luis S.
Decision: n/a Argument: 2020.04.29 vid. tr. Proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 10 seeking an order discharging petitioner or releasing him to the community under a regimen of strict…
Matter of Stevens v. NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services
Decision: 2023.10.24 Argument: 2023.09.14 vid. tr. Whether petitioners, relatives of persons whose genetic profiles are in the New York State DNA database, have standing to challenge regulations adopted by respondents…
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…
Matter of Timperio v. Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether claimant’s injury in a mass shooting at his place of employment was an injury that arose out of his employment, where there was…
Morrison v. New York City Housing Authority
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether, in a personal-injury case, Supreme Court properly granted summary judgment to NYCHA based on an affidavit of a non-English speaker, when the affidavit…
Motondo v. City of Syracuse
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.10.18 vid. tr. Whether the City of Syracuse, through legislation or otherwise, evidenced an intent to withdraw the issue of police and firefighter disciplinary procedures from collective…
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…
Nitkewicz v. Lincoln Life & Annuity Co. of New York
Decision: 2023.10.19 Argument: 2023.09.12 vid. tr. Whether a planned payment into an interest-bearing policy account, as part of a universal life insurance policy, constitutes a “premium actually paid for any…
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…
Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
Decision: n/a Argument: 2024.01.10 vid. tr. Does Uniform Commercial Code § 8-110(a)(1) require that the validity of documents governing a bond swap be determined under “the local law of 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…
Police Benevolent Association of NYC v. City of New York
Decision: n/a Argument: 2023.10.19 vid. tr. Whether the Administrative Code of the City of New York § 10-181, which makes it a criminal misdemeanor to use certain methods of restraint…
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany v. Vullo
Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Fulton v. Philadelphia, 141 S. Ct. 1868 (2021), Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany…
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…
Secky v. New Paltz Central School District
Decision: 2023.04.27 Argument: 2023.03.15 vid. tr. Whether the doctrine of assumption of risk properly supported an award of summary judgment dismissing a plaintiff’s tort claims resulting from injuries sustained while…
Singh v. City of New York
Decision: 2023.04.27 Argument: 2023.03.14 vid. tr. Whether plaintiffs’ General Business Law § 349 claim against the City of New York sounded in tort, triggering the notice-of-claim requirement of General Municipal Law…
State of New York v. Vayu
Decision: 2023.02.14 Argument: 2023.01.03 vid. tr. Whether the courts below erred in holding plaintiff failed to make a prima facie showing of personal jurisdiction over defendant under CPLR 302(a)(1).
Stoneham v. Barsuk
Decision: 2023.12.19 Argument: 2023.11.16 vid. tr. Whether repairing a leaking air tank on a trailer qualifies as “repairing” a “structure” under Labor Law § 240(1).
Suzanne P. v. Joint Board of Directors of Erie-Wyoming County Soil Conservation District
Decision: 2024.01.16 2023.01.10 (rearg) Argument: 2022.01.05 vid. tr. 2023.11.16 vid. tr. Whether trial evidence established the defendant Soil Conservation District owned dam at the time of plaintiff’s decedent’s fatal accident.
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…
Worthy Lending LLC v. New Style Contractors, Inc.
Decision: 2022.11.22 Argument: 2022.10.19 vid. tr. Whether a private right of action exists for alleged violations of UCC 9-607.