All Articles tagged Second Department

• New York Appeals
  January 01, 2014 EDT
  NEW YORK STATE CLASS ACTIONS: MAKING IT WORK–FULFILLING THE PROMISE: SOME RECENT POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS AND WHY CPLR 901(B) SHOULD BE REPEALED
  Thomas A. DickersonLeonard B. AustinBrian Zucco

  Since "Make It Work" was published there have been several positive developments in how New York state courts interpreted and implemented CPLR Article 9.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2013 EDT
  FOREWARNED: SPORTS, TORTS, AND NEW YORK‘S DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION
  Benjamin P. Pomerance

  For decades New York state courts in torts cases have blanketly applied the assumption of risk doctrine and barred recovery rather than taking a more equitable approach under comparative negligence.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  QUALITY IN NUMBERS? THE DYNAMICS OF DECISION-MAKING IN THE SECOND DEPARTMENT
  Kristopher Ostrander

  This study examines the the divided decision of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, over the ten-year period beginning January 1, 2000 and ending October 1, 2010.