NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A company sued the City of New York for allegedly neglecting a tree until it began to grow onto their property.
The complaint was filed on April 19 in the New York County Supreme Court by plaintiff Everton Properties LLC against the City of New York, the New York City School Construction Authority and the Department of Education of the City of New York. Everton Properties owns the property at 1131 Broadway in Brooklyn. Next to the property is a school playground area.
The plaintiff alleges that a tree on the playground area has been neglected by the defendants and has grown into the plaintiff s east wall.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Letitia James has moved to dismiss Amazon’s lawsuit against her that seeks to block litigation she filed against it over the company’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her May 3 motion comes a month after her lawsuit got a restart in New York state court. The timeline essentially is this: James threatened suit, Amazon sued her to block it, James filed her own suit.
“Amazon’s complaint should be dismissed,” James’ lawyers wrote. “As an initial matter, the court lacks federal subject matter jurisdiction because Amazon requests anticipatory declaratory and injunctive relief while disputing the meaning and application of state law.
LGBTQ students sue Yeshiva University for discrimination
May 7, 2021
NEW YORK (JTA) A group of students and alumni is suing Yeshiva University for discrimination, claiming that the university violated New York City’s human rights law when it refused to recognize an LGBTQ student club.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in New York County Supreme Court.
Over the last few years, the students repeatedly lobbied the university’s administration to formally recognize a Gay-Straight Alliance club. The university, a prominent Modern Orthodox institution, has grappled with how to reconcile a traditional interpretation of Jewish law, which does not allow homosexual. For access to this article please
Weinstein has alleged his former attorney Jose Baez botched their first contract
He claims he agreed to pay Baez $2m to cover trial and post-trial proceedings
Baez was paid $1 million under the agreement, but the lawsuit claims he delegated most work to Weinstein s other attorney, Ronald Sullivan
Weinstein alleged that the defendants have not refunded him the money
Jospeh Tacopina, a New York litigator who is representing Baez and his firm, slammed Weinstein s claims as audacious lies in a statement
Baez dropped Weinstein after six months, citing behavior that makes this representation unreasonably difficult to carry out effectively
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Westside Market in New York City was sued for assault and battery damages after four of its employees allegedly jumped a man they believed to have stolen a sandwich.
The complaint was filed by plaintiffs Tommy Hairston and Diovies Jaililov on April 21 in the New York County Supreme Court. Hairston and Jaililov visited the grocery store s location at 170 W. 23rd. St. in New York on May 31, 2020, where Hairston ordered a sandwich from the delicatessen counter.
The plaintiffs say they paid for the sandwich by placing a $10 bill on the delicatessen counter to include the price of the sandwich and a tip, then left the store.