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You Shall Not Pass

Amelia Michael July 3, 2025 No Comments
Site of Plaintiff’s Fall Not Passageway According to Industrial Code In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department modified a Supreme Court, County order that denied the branches of…
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Insufficient Inconsistencies, Again

Amelia Michael July 1, 2025 No Comments
Alternative Narratives Not Enough to Ward Off Summary Judgment In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, First Department modified a Supreme Court, New York County decision that granted plaintiff’s summary…
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What’s in a Date Anyway?

Amelia Michael June 30, 2025 No Comments
Second Department Reminds Us Plaintiff Doesn’t Need to Correctly Plead Date of Accident It really doesn’t matter when the accident happened. In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department…
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Not Necessarily in Conflict

Amelia Michael June 27, 2025 No Comments
Conflicting Narratives of Accident Don’t Matter for Labor Law § 240(1) In a recent decision, the Supreme Court, New York County granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, inter alia, as…
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Homeowners’ Exception to the Rescue!

Amelia Michael June 25, 2025 No Comments
Preference for Ladders Over Scaffolding Not Sufficient for § 240(1) In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a Supreme Court, Kings County decision that granted the defendants’…
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Another Narrative of Events

Amelia Michael June 22, 2025 No Comments
Rare Eyewitness on a § 240(1) Cause of Action In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a Supreme Court, Kings County decision that denied plaintiff’s motion for…
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Yet Another Classic

Amelia Michael June 20, 2025 No Comments
First Department Rejects Defendants’ Pipe Dreams of Reversal In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, First Department affirmed a Supreme Court, Bronx County decision that granted plaintiff’s motion for summary…
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It’s (Conveniently) Outta Here!

Amelia Michael June 18, 2025 No Comments
On June 6, 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a Motion to Transfer Woodward v. General Motors, LLC, 2025 U.S. Dist. Lexis 108258,…
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