The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the plaintiffs’ motion to amend the complaint to “pierce the corporate veil” should not have been granted: The allegations in the proposed amended complaint were “conclusory” rather than fact-based: “‘Broadly speaking, the courts will disregard the corporate form, or, to use accepted terminology, “pierce the corporate veil,” whenever […]
The First Department, vacating defendant’s plea to attempted burglary, determined defendant’s plea allocution negated an essential element of the offense, thereby calling into question the voluntariness of the plea: Burglary requires the intent to commit a crime while unlawfully entering or remaining in a building. Defendant did not admit he intended to commit a crime […]
The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s summary judgment motion on the Labor Law 240(1) cause of action should have been granted. Defendant raised the recalcitrant worker defense which the First Department found inapplicable. Plaintiff was standing on a scaffold when it collapsed. Defendant argued plaintiff disregarded instructions on how to construct the scaffold, […]
The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Wilson, determined the People’s electronic filing of the statement of readiness (SOR) after court hours at 5:03 pm on the final day of the statutory 90-day period was timely: The court rejected the argument that the SOR must be reviewed and accepted by the clerk’s […]
The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Rivera, determined five years post-release supervision (PRS) was properly imposed as part of defendant’s sentence and defendant waived the right to appeal her sentence as excessive. Defendant pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to ten years incarceration under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice […]
The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Singas, over a two-judge dissent, determined the prosecution’s failure to turn over an Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) report which was relevant to the credibility of one of the arresting officers (Congedo) before the filing of the certificate of compliance (COC) with the discovery timetable did […]
The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Cannataro, determined defendant was subjected to custodial interrogation when he was questioned on the street after he was handcuffed. Because the Miranda warnings were not given, defendant’s admission to punching the victim should have been suppressed. However the error was harmless in light of the […]
The Court of Appeals, reversing (modifying) the Appellate Division, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Garcia, over a partial dissent and a dissenting opinion, determined the complaint alleging the NYC public education system discriminates against Black and Latino students failed as a matter of law. The opinion is too complex to fairly summarize here: Plaintiffs […]
The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Rivera, remitted the matter to give defendant the opportunity to personally controvert the prosecution’s predicate felony allegations, and to challenge the constitutionality of the predicate felony sentencing scheme, despite the defense attorney’s concession of the issue: … [D]efendant’s challenge to his sentence has merit. The […]
The Third Department, reversing defendant’s attempted robbery first degree conviction and ordering a new trial on that count, determined County Court provided the jury with the wrong definition of the offense: Defendant was charged with attempted robbery in the first degree pursuant to Penal Law § 160.15 (2), defined as forcibly stealing property while armed […]
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