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While delivering mail to the insured premises, a postal worker opened a storm door, squatted down, and held the storm door open with the left side of her body to reach the mail slot that was located in the wooden door, about six inches above the bottom.  After depositing the
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Insurer Of Fire-Damaged Property Owner Denied Recovery Against Lessee Hands Across Long Island, Whose Client (Mentally Challenged Resident) Caused Fire Smoking In Bed. Court rules that that lessee owed no duty to plaintiff's insured to stop the resident from smoking cigarettes in the apartment or to monitor his conduct in
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The bride was injured when a floral arch fell on top of her while she was sitting at a table during the wedding reception at King Star Restaurant. The bride sued the restaurant. Trying to get out of the case on liability, King Star was required to establish that it
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Teddy was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He appealed. He lost, even though the Court committed the following errors: 1. It declined to give a missing-witness charge with respect to the People's failure to call the complaining witness and the People failed to demonstrate
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In Garcia v. College of Staten Island,  our client, John Garcia, a campus peace officer in the Office of Public Safety at the college, sued the college for hostile work harassment based on the sexually explicit verbal comments and physical gestures made by a female peace officer, Robertson.  Robertson rubbed
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