Orders and New Case Grant (Nov. 18, 2021)

The Court issued orders and motion decisions today, granting leave in one new civil case:

In Estate of Murphy v. New York City Housing Authority, the Court will consider whether an owner of a building is negligent for a murder in the building when the murderers accessed the building through a door with a broken lock. In the decision below, the First Department held that the building owner wasn’t liable, because the murderers were “bent on revenge” and would have found a way to enter the building regardless. In legal speak, the broken lock was not, in the First Department’s view, a proximate cause of the murder.