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ALTHOUGH THE APPELLATE COURT TOOK JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A REGULATION ALLOWING CITY SANITATION TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON APPEAL, THERE WERE DISPUTED FACTS ABOUT WHETHER THE DOUBLE PARKED SANITATION TRUCK COULD HAVE BEEN PULLED TO THE CURB, THE CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS REAR-END COLLISION CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant city was not entitled to summary judgment based upon the van in which the plaintiff was a passenger striking the rear of a sanitation truck that was double parked. On appeal the city cited a regulation which allows sanitation trucks to double park. The existence of the regulation was raised for the first time on appeal. Although the regulation could have been considered on appeal if it raised a pure question of law, disputed facts about the possibility that the truck could have moved over to the curb foreclosed an appellate ruling:

While, as a matter of common sense, a City sanitation truck may under certain circumstances need to double park in order to perform its job of removing refuse, the City did not point to any regulation exempting sanitation trucks from City traffic rules, and therefore did not establish prima facie their lack of liability. On appeal, the City defendants bring to the Court’s attention a City traffic regulation, applicable at the time of the accident, that excepts City refuse trucks from double parking rules under certain conditions, and we take judicial notice of that regulation … . The regulation provides that the “operator of a refuse collection vehicle working on behalf of the City” is allowed to “temporarily stand on the roadway side of a vehicle parked at the curb, provided that no curb space is available within fifteen feet, while loading refuse . . .” … .

It is well-settled that “[w]here a party . . . raises [for the first time on appeal] a new legal argument which appeared upon the face of the record and which could not have been avoided . . . [s]o long as the issue is determinative and the record on appeal is sufficient to permit our review, [this Court may consider the argument]”… . Here, however, the City’s argument that the regulation allowed their operator to double park is not a pure question of law, but depends on disputed facts in the record concerning whether there was a parking space available within fifteen feet of the pick up location. While the two sanitation employees assigned to the truck testified that there was no curb space available to park when they arrived, one of them acknowledged that a post-accident photograph, which is in the record, appears to show an open space between the double-parked truck and the curb. The testimony of one of the employees that it would have been unsafe to attempt to parallel park the truck under the existing traffic conditions also presents an issue of fact to be resolved by a fact-finder. We therefore decline to consider the City defendants’ newly-raised argument for the first time on appeal … . Nadella v City of New York, 2018 NY Slip Op 03103, First Dept 5-1-18

​NEGLIGENCE (TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, ALTHOUGH THE APPELLATE COURT TOOK JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A REGULATION ALLOWING CITY SANITATION TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON APPEAL, THERE WERE DISPUTED FACTS ABOUT WHETHER THE DOUBLE PARKED SANITATION TRUCK COULD HAVE BEEN PULLED TO THE CURB, THE CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS REAR-END COLLISION CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT))/APPEALS (NEGLIGENCE, ALTHOUGH THE APPELLATE COURT TOOK JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A REGULATION ALLOWING CITY SANITATION TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON APPEAL, THERE WERE DISPUTED FACTS ABOUT WHETHER THE DOUBLE PARKED SANITATION TRUCK COULD HAVE BEEN PULLED TO THE CURB, THE CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS REAR-END COLLISION CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT))/TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS (ALTHOUGH THE APPELLATE COURT TOOK JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A REGULATION ALLOWING CITY SANITATION TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON APPEAL, THERE WERE DISPUTED FACTS ABOUT WHETHER THE DOUBLE PARKED SANITATION TRUCK COULD HAVE BEEN PULLED TO THE CURB, THE CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS REAR-END COLLISION CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT)).REAR END COLLISIONS (ACCIDENTS, ALTHOUGH THE APPELLATE COURT TOOK JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A REGULATION ALLOWING CITY SANITATION TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON APPEAL, THERE WERE DISPUTED FACTS ABOUT WHETHER THE DOUBLE PARKED SANITATION TRUCK COULD HAVE BEEN PULLED TO THE CURB, THE CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS REAR-END COLLISION CASE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT))

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