New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest November 18, 2008
By David Badertscher, PLL
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<p><font size="2">U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT<br/>Criminal Practice<br/><font><font color="red">Free With Registration:</font> Confront Right Breached When Defendant Barred From Cross-Examining Accuser on Racial Bias</font> <br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS" target="_blank"><b><i>Brinson, petitioner-appellee v. Walker, respondent-appellant</i></b></a></font> </font></p>
<p><font size="2">NEW YORK COUNTY<br/>Torts<br/><font>Plaintiffs May Proceed With Fraud Claim Against Christie's for Inauthentic Basquiat Painting</font> <br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank"><b><i>Tony Shafrazi Gallery Inc. v. Christie's Inc.</i></b></a></font> <br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>KINGS COUNTY<br/>Workers' Compensation</b></font><br/><font>Transit Authority Denied Motion to Assert Lien Against Worker's Settlement Proceeds</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW" target="_blank"><b><i>Matter of Rodriguez v. New York City Transit Authority</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>KINGS COUNTY<br/>Insurance Law</b></font><br/><font>Insurer's Sufficiently Established Assignors Failed To Appear for Exams; Summary Judgment Granted</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVY" target="_blank"><b><i>Allstate Social Work and Psychological Svcs PLLC v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co.</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>RICHMOND COUNTY<br/>Bankruptcy</b></font><br/><font>Discharge in Bankruptcy Defense Deemed Waived; Hospital Fails to Plead Affirmative Defense in Answer</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVA" target="_blank"><b><i>Dixon v. Chang</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>NASSAU COUNTY<br/>Family Law</b></font><br/><font>Newly Enacted Law Permits Wife to Challenge Couples' 12-Year-Old Post-Nuptial Agreement</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVB" target="_blank"><b><i>Petracca v. Petracca</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>SUFFOLK COUNTY<br/>Civil Practice</b></font><br/><font>Delaware Law Applies to Substantive Law, N.Y. Law To Procedural Law; Action Ruled Timely Commenced</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVC" target="_blank"><b><i>Colonial Credit Corp. v. Tokeida</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>U.S. DISTRICT COURT<br/>SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<br/>Intellectual Property</b></font><br/><font>Author May Replead Inducement, Misrepresentation Claims Over Book Published as Written by Others</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVD" target="_blank"><b><i>Miller v. Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>U.S. DISTRICT COURT<br/>SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<br/>Civil Rights </b></font><br/><font>Police Chief, Captain Win Judgment in Officers' Suit Over Video Camera Installed in Locker Room</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVSR" target="_blank"><b><i>DeVittorio v. Hall</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>U.S. DISTRICT COURT<br/>SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<br/>Civil Practice</b></font><br/><font><font color="red">Free With Registration:</font> Suit Arising From 2004 Terrorist Attack on Hotel In Sinai More Properly Brought in Egypt or Israel</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVSS" target="_blank"><b><i>Niv. v. Hilton Hotels Corp.</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>U.S. DISTRICT COURT<br/>EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<br/>Civil Practice</b></font><br/><font>State Tax Agency Given Four-Month Discovery Stay On Papers Forming Basis for City, Federal Probe</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVST" target="_blank"><b><i>City of New York v. Gutlove & Shirvint Inc.</i></b></a></font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 18, 2008 --></font><font size="2"><font color="#265a8e"><b>U.S. DISTRICT COURT<br/>EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<br/>Judges</b></font><br/><font>City Term Limits Law Opponents Must Show Cause Why Judge Should Not Be Randomly Reassigned</font><br/><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRAAWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVSU" target="_blank"><b><i>Molinari v. Bloomberg</i></b></a></font></font></p>
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