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For personal injury attorneys, one of the tougher claims to prove is one alleging that a government agency had a duty to protect the plaintiff based on the existence of "special relationship.
So you know the champagne corks must have been popping on March 28, 2006, when lawyers for a victim of domestic violence won a $10 million verdict against New York City.
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This case against me and my wife represents the symbolic and profound disrespect for the Black community and communities of color, in that as Black attorneys who were engaged in our constitutuionally protected right to verbally request the cessation of criminal acts by police officers," Warren told the AmNews, "what we were engaged in was our civic responsibility in trying to point out that not only were the actions of these police officers inappropriate, but we were also trying to stop the commission of a crime by police officers on June 21, 2007.
"It is a disgrace that this case has dragged on this long, and it is amazing, but unfortunately not surprising, Sgt. [James Talvy] has not been disciplined and is still in the position to supervise other officers," retired detective Marq Cl...
... of our communities suffer indignities, personal injury, and in some instances death [at the hands ...
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...Steven Raffaele is an associate our New York office. . Defendants, insurers, self-insureds and attorneys in personal injury litigation need to be aware of ...
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..., a law firm and one of its attorneys (collectively Carlisle), filed a lawsuit in Ohio s... debt collecting attorneys can be held personally liable for their reasonable misinterpretations of ...18 See Brief for State of New York et al. as Amici Curiae 11, and n. 6. Neither Car... to force settlement even absent fault or injury; when class-action suits transform technical legal...
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... legal malpractice claims against their attorneys to third parties and maintains that due to the res... pecuniary in nature and not on par with personal injury claims. 10 In doing so, these courts impli...
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... Steven Raffaele is an associate our New York office. Defendants, insurers, self-insureds and attorneys in personal injury litigation need to be aware of ...
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Suzanne Avena
Chair, Environmental Practice Group
...Hon. Angela G. Iannacci. Justice. New York State Supreme Court. After Iannacci was elected ju... a finalist in its Best Accountants and Attorneys for Growing Businesses Awards. Mary O'Reilly. Asso...Salk, who concentrates his practice in personal injury and medical malpractice law, recently joine...
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New York Accident Attorneys Remind Snowmobile Drivers and Passengers to Be Car...
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...Bush Administration. U.S. Attorneys prosecuted several high-profile medical marijuana ... must show that it (1) suffered an injury to its business or property (2) that was proximate... excludes other sorts of injury, such as personal injury or harm to a government's sovereign interes...City of New York, (90) the Court dismissed the city's civil RICO cl...
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With over 350 million records containing sensitive personal information having been compromised since 2005, it is evident that data breaches are an epidemic problem. After demonstrating the security breach problem, the Note begins by discussing California's pioneering data breach notification law, which requires breached entities to notify those affected that their personal information has been compromised. Drawing on various provisions found in California's notification law, the Note evaluates current state and federal data breach laws. To further explore the relationship between federal and state enforcement, two recent data breaches, the ChoicePoint and TJX breaches, are discussed in-depth. The Note then examines proposed federal and state legislation to strengthen the argument that ...
... the information.36 On the other hand, New York and New Jersey require notification to a designate... This power is similarly given to State Attorneys General in Colorado and California by expressly al... have held that an increased risk of future injury from identity theft exposure is insufficient to su...