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Trupia v. Lake George Cent. Sch. Dist.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury action based on a school's allegedly negligent supervision of a child, appellate division's order reversing the grant of...

American Standard, Inc. v. Oakfabco, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a personal injury action based on the presence of asbestos in defendant's boiler, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where defendant, the...

Travelers Lloyds Ins. Co. v. Pac. Employers Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action by an insurer seeking a declaration that defendant-insurer was required to defend and indemnify a shopping mall against claims in an...

Guinn v. AstraZeneca Pharms. LLP

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action claiming that plaintiff's use of defendant's prescription drug Seroquel caused her to develop diabetes, summary judgment for defendant is...

CRS Recovery, Inc. v. Laxton

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action alleging theft of Internet domain names, summary judgment for plaintiffs is vacated where: 1) California law applied because Virginia did...

Jocer Enters., Inc. v. Price

Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action for legal malpractice and indemnity against an attorney and a law firm, trial court's order sustaining defendant's demurrer to the second...

Shalant v. Girardi

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
Trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint, declaring plaintiff to be a vexatious litigant within the meaning of Code of Civil Procedure section...

ACE Am. Ins. Co. v. RC2 Corp., Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
In a toy manufacturer's suit against its insurer seeking declaratory relief and damages, district court's conclusion that the insurer had a duty to...

Estate of Escobedo v. Bender

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit filed by a personal representative of an estate against a city and individual members of the city's police department...

Del Lago Partners, Inc. v. Smith

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a bar patron's premises-liability claim for injuries caused by another patron during a closing-time melee involving dozens of intoxicated...