Premises Liability When an injury is caused by an unsafe or defective condition on someone’s property, negligent owners may be held responsible. Business owners, landlords, private property owners, and City and Government officials all have a duty to provide a safe environment for residents, pedestrians, and guests. When they neglect
Read MoreSexual Harassment and Discrimination Sexual Harassment is when a person is subjected to comments or conduct of a sexual nature while at work or a place of public accommodation. It can range from sexual comments about a person's body, to continuously asking a person out on a date, to comments
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ASSAULT & BATTERY Assault is an act performed intentionally in order to cause a reasonable fear of harmful and imminent contact. That is, a person does something with the intention of making the victim believe he or she was about to touched in some way; the threat “I’m going to punch
Read MorePOLICE EXCESSIVE FORCE & FALSE ARREST In New York City, the NYPD cannot make an arrest without probable cause. Any arrest made without a warrant has a presumption of being unlawful, and the burden falls on the police to show that probable cause existed for making the arrest. An arrest
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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Failure of hospital emergency room doctors to diagnose a heart attack, stroke, appendicitis, or an aneurysm kills patients every day. Medical Malpractice is very serious but often are caused by what might seem like minor procedures such as nurse gives a patient the wrong medicine, or fails to
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