The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the Bronx Defenders and the LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the NYPD last week over a stop-and-frisk-type of program that allows officers to patrol private apartment buildings. The lawsuit claims that the officers are violating residents’ rights and the rights…
Seventy-two ex-NFL football players sued the National Football League last week, accusing it of conspiring to keep data on head trauma research from them to influence collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Dr. Tammy Reynolds, an obstetrician who had her first child by C-section and her second vaginally, argues that doctors practice…
The Commission on Judicial Conduct has cleared the presiding justice of the First Department Appellate Division, Judge Luis Gonzalez, of all charges of misconduct in connection with allegations that he improperly made attestations on certain mortgage documents, improperly permitted the private practice of law by his executive assistant, permitted a…
This medical malpractice trial commenced on April 4, 2012 in Penobscot County Superior Court, Maine. The details are set forth in an article in The Bangor News. Although essential facts are not included in the article it appears that the defendant physician prescribed methadone for pain resulting from prolotherapy for…
From New York Daily News; “One worker was killed and four others injured when a crane collapsed Tuesday night at the construction site for the MTA No. 7 train extension project,officials said. The man who died, a 29-year-old, was pulled from the pit that sits 60 feet below street level…
Stephen Mackauf will serve as the Co-Chair for the American Conference Institute‘s 11th Annual Advanced Forum on Preventing, Managing and Defending Against Claims of Obstetric Malpractice held from June 27 to June 28 at the The Union League of Philadelphia. The event is the nation’s premier obstetric malpractice conference and…
In what is being called the largest civil verdict in Pickens County history, a jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man whose wife died of complications from gynecological surgery. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 700,000 vehicles because of a variety of safety issues. Chrysler Group also announced…
Our partner Jeffery Bloom settled this complex and difficult liability New York Medical Malpractice case in New York Supreme Court, Nassau County following two mediations. The case arose as a result of the alleged negligent care by the defendant doctors’ of the plaintiffs’ daughter a then 10-year old girl. It…
By Rhonda Kay, Partner, Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz; In Edwards v. Erie Coach Lines Co. (17 N.Y.3d 306, 929 N.Y.S.2d 41 [2011]) The New York Court of Appeals clarified choice of law analysis in a multi-party case. New York’s choice of law analysis, commonly referred to…
By Anthony Gair; Resolution of whether a plaintiff has a viable action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 turns on whether the applicable state statute is inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States; Robinson v. Wegman, 436 U.S. 584, 98 S. Ct. 1991 (1978) citing 42 U.S.C. §1988.…