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Court of Appeals of New York - November 2001 Opinion Summaries

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DELUCA v. DELUCA

Court of Appeals of New York
Family Law
Retirement benefits from the Police Superior Officers Variable Supplements Fund are marital property subject to equitable distribution.
11/27/2001 2 No. 150

LIGHTMAN v. FLAUM

Court of Appeals of New York
Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
CPLR 4505 does not impose a fiduciary duty upon members of the clergy and does not subject them to civil liability for disclosing confidential...
11/27/2001 2 No. 144

BLOOMFIELD v. BLOOMFIELD

Court of Appeals of New York
Family Law
A prenuptial agreement executed over 30 years ago containing a maintenance waiver by one spouse is not necessarily a waiver of maintenance, but must...
11/27/2001 1 No. 140

TAGLE v. JAKOB

Court of Appeals of New York
Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Landlord had no duty to warn tenant that wires that ran into and out of a tree on the property would also ran through the tree.
11/27/2001 3 No. 131

PEOPLE v. DIAZ

Court of Appeals of New York
Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Where the prosecution fails to ensure that a witness understood its telephone conversations with out of state defendant by failing to address him in...
11/20/2001 2 No. 136

VIRUET v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Court of Appeals of New York
Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Service of a notice of claim in a personal injury action against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation may be effected by service upon...
11/20/2001 1 No. 138

LEADER v. MARONEY, PONZINI & SPENCER

Court of Appeals of New York
Civil Procedure
Under the interest of justice standard to grant an extension of time for service under CPLR 306-b, a showing of reasonable diligence in attempting to...
11/20/2001 2 No. 146, 147, and 148

IN RE: ESTATE OF KATHLEEN L. COVERT

Court of Appeals of New York

Where a victim's will makes bequests to the wrongdoer's family, innocent distributees are not disinherited by virtue of their familial relationship to...
11/20/2001 3 No. 154

MARTINEZ v. CITY OF SCHENECTADY

Court of Appeals of New York
Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
A cause of action for malicious prosecution will fail when a criminal defendant has not obtained a favorable termination of a criminal proceeding...
11/19/2001 3 No. 139

IN RE: TALL TREES CONSTRUCTION CORP. v. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

Court of Appeals of New York
Administrative Law, Property Law & Real Estate
When a quorum of a town's Zoning Board is present and participates in a vote on an application, a vote of less than a majority of the Board is deemed...
11/19/2001 2 No. 151

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