"The Appeals Attorneys" is a publication from my firm's Appellate Advocacy Group. It includes summaries of cases that will be heard by the high courts in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. For New York, this edition includes the following cases:

Voss v. The Netherland Ins. Co. (Insurance Coverage)

Ragins v. Hosps. Ins. Co. (CPLR)

Osterweil v. Bartlett (Second Amendment)

Barenboim v. Starbucks Corp. (Labor & Employment Law)

Commonweath of the N. Mariana Islands v. Can. Imperial Bank of Commerce (CPLR/Enforcing Judgments)

Callistro v. Bebbington (Expert Testimony/Medical Malpractice)

Matter of Perry Bellamy v. NYCPD (Freedom of Information Law)

Villarin v. The Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Sch. (Labor & Employment Law)

Biotonik v. Conor Medsystems Ireland, Ltd. (Contracts)

Jacobsen v. NYC Health & Hosps. Corp. (Labor & Employment)

Soto v. J. Crew, Inc. (Labor Law sec. 240(1); New York's Scaffold Law)

Cornell v. 360 W. 51st Str. Realty (Evidence)

Sandiford v. City of New York Dept. of Educ. (Labor and Employment)

JFK Holding Co. v. City of New York (Contract)

Plaza v. NY Health & Hosps. Corp. (Civil Procedure)

If you are interested in receiving the quarterly publication through email, please email me at mlerner[at]goldbergsegalla[dot]com.

I'm posting about a story that broke last Friday, but better late than never. Governor Cuomo nominated Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam to the New York Court of Appeals on Friday, April 5, 2013 to fill the seat previously held by the late-Judge Theodore Jones. Here's the Governor's press release. Here are some news article about the nomination: The Times Union here; and The New York Law Journal here. The nomination awaits state Senate approval.