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Court of Appeals affirms $500,000 punitive damages award in inmate beating case

20 Jul 2023, 8:58 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

The verdict stands and the inmate will recover $500,000.The case is Magalios v. [read post]

Wait A Second! - http://secondcircuitcivilrights.blogspot.com/

over aggressive partial dissent, 11th Cir. allows some class claims against Ford "track ready" claims to proceed

20 Jul 2023, 8:46 am by Rebecca Tushnet

Tershakovec v. [read post]

43(B)log - http://tushnet.blogspot.com/

False Claims Act Whistleblowers Receive $4 Million for Exposing Alleged Mortgage Fraud

20 Jul 2023, 8:36 am by Max Kohn

Schutte v. [read post]

Whistleblower Protection Blog - http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/

Tenured employee terminated after refusing COVID-19 vaccine after employee's application for a religious exemption was denied

20 Jul 2023, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Dist. of the City of New York, 2022 WL 797971 [Sup Ct, New York County 2022, Kotler, J.]; Matter of Bryan v The Bd. of Educ. of the City Sch. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Tenured employee terminated after refusing COVID-19 vaccine after employee's application for a religious exemption was denied

20 Jul 2023, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Dist. of the City of New York, 2022 WL 797971 [Sup Ct, New York County 2022, Kotler, J.]; Matter of Bryan v The Bd. of Educ. of the City Sch. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

In a premises liability case, the court considered whether there was constructive notice of the hazard. Vargas v. Target Corp., 137 A.D.3d 1094 (2d Dep’t 2016)

19 Jul 2023, 5:53 pm by Stephen Bilkis

Factual Background On December 22, 2008, Anna Vargas went to a Target store located in the Bronx, New York. [read post]

New York Personal Injury Lawyer Blog - http://www.newyorkinjurylawyer247blog.com/

[Eugene Volokh] Court Rejects Online Activist Eugene Gu's #TheyLied Libel Suit Over Abuse Allegations in The Verge

19 Jul 2023, 4:30 pm by Eugene Volokh

From New York trial judge Shlomo Hagler's opinion released today in Gu v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Josh Blackman] SDNY "Believe[s]" In Dictum That President An "Officer of the United States" for purposes of Federal Officer Removal Statute

19 Jul 2023, 1:29 pm by Josh Blackman

The New York District Attorney argued that Trump was not an "Officer of the United States. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

For computer offenses of “causing damage” to a computer, Second Circuit allows venue in the location of any computer that was prevented from accessing files that were unlawfully deleted from the remote server of a software vendor.

19 Jul 2023, 9:00 am by Colleen Cassidy

In United States v. [read post]

Federal Defenders of New York Blog - http://blog.federaldefendersny.org/

Second Circuit finds that VICAR murder may categorically qualify as a crime of violence

19 Jul 2023, 7:26 am by Sarah Baumgartel

See Borden v. [read post]

Federal Defenders of New York Blog - http://blog.federaldefendersny.org/

Plaintiff may win retaliation claim against New York City Housing Authority

19 Jul 2023, 6:16 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog

New York City Housing Authority, a summary order issued on July 17. [read post]

Wait A Second! - http://secondcircuitcivilrights.blogspot.com/

Limited Services, Limited Liability

19 Jul 2023, 5:28 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

Five Towns Pediatrics, P.C. v Billet, Feit & Preis, P.C. 2023 NY Slip Op 32328(U) July 12, 2023 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 157252/2018Judge: Andrea Masley is the story of a limited retainer agreement often used by accounting firms. [read post]

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog - http://blog.bluestonelawfirm.com/

chatGPT’s Research Paper Topics and Non-Theses

19 Jul 2023, 4:50 am by Michael C. Dorf

New York, 198 U.S. 45, 75 (1905), that the Constitution does not “embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the State or of laissez faire. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Denial of Teacher's Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate Is Upheld

19 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman

In In re Matyas v. [read post]

Religion Clause - http://religionclause.blogspot.com/

The History of Public Adjusting—Samuel Milch v. Westchester Fire Insurance Company

19 Jul 2023, 3:00 am by Chip Merlin

—Thomas Jefferson 1Milch v Westchester Fire Ins. [read post]

Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog - http://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/

Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

18 Jul 2023, 7:09 am by Eric Goldman

ML Genius v. [read post]