Pending Cases

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 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 Jun Wang v. James

Decision: 2023.12.14 Argument: 2023.11.14 vid. tr. Whether deference should be accorded to DOCCS’s interpretation of Correction Law § 24-a; whether that statute extends state-law indemnification protections to a medical professional providing…

Matter of Karlin v. Stanford

Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether parolees retain First Amendment rights such that a special parole condition is reviewable on constitutional grounds; whether a special parole condition barring a…

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 Kotsones

Decision: n/a Argument: n/a vid. tr. Whether, in a probate dispute, evidence that a beneficiary of the will held a position of trust with the decedent is sufficient to establish…

Matter of Lazalee v. Wegman’s Food Markets, Inc.

Decision: 2023.12.12 Argument: 2023.11.14 vid. tr. Whether the Workers’ Compensation Board rationally denied the employer’s belated request to produce the employee’s treating physician for cross-examination under 12 NYCRR 300.10(c).

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 Maika

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.

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 Orozco v. City of New York

Decision: 2024.03.21 Argument: 2024.02.13 vid. tr. hen determining whether to grant a petition for leave to serve a late notice of claim under General Municipal Law § 50-e(5), whether “actual…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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.

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).