Category: Legal Pulse

Obama’s Endgame for Military Detention at Guantanamo

—by Kyle Tucker Source: President Barack Obama, Remarks by the President on Plan to Close the Prison at Guantanamo Bay (Feb. 23, 2016), https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/23/remarks-president-plan-close-prison-guantanamo-bay. Abstract: President Obama announced that a plan… Read more »

New York Court of Appeals Finds State Thruway Authority not Responsible in Slip-and-Fall Outside Precinct

—by Adam Kuhn Sherman v. N.Y. State Thruway Auth., No. 56, 2016 N.Y. LEXIS 1061 (May 5, 2016). Abstract: The New York Court of Appeals granted summary judgment for the… Read more »

Injured? You May be Covered: Court Of Appeals Extends the Duty of Care Owed by Medical Providers to Members of the General Public

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— By Andrew Stewart Davis v. South Nassau Communities Hosp., 2015 NY Slip Op 09229 (December 16, 2015). Abstract: The Court of Appeals recognized a legal duty owed by medical… Read more »