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New York City Administrative Code § 7-201(c)(2), passed in 1979 by the New York City council and codified in 1980, bars personal injury lawsuits against the city arising from sidewalk or roadway defects, unless the city was notified of the defect at least 15 days prior to the injury. [2] The administrative code (as amended in 2006) provides:
Claims against the State of New York were originally heard and decided by the New York State Legislature.In 1874, a constitutional amendment was ratified which prohibited the Legislature from assessing claims against the State, and in 1876 the State Board of Audit (later renamed Board of Claims) was created to step in.
The Civil Court of the City of New York is a civil court of the New York State Unified Court System in New York City that decides lawsuits involving claims for damages up to $25,000 and includes a small claims part (small claims court) for cases involving amounts up to $10,000 as well as a housing part (housing court) for landlord-tenant matters, and also handles other civil matters referred ...
The city’s Department of Investigation claims a “staffing issue” is preventing it from investigating what past mayoral administrations knew about 9/11 air toxins — prompting criticism from ...
The New York City Criminal Courts Building in Manhattan. The Criminal Court of the City of New York handles misdemeanors (generally, crimes punishable by fine or imprisonment of up to one year) and lesser offenses, and also conducts arraignments (initial court appearances following arrest) and preliminary hearings in felony cases (generally, more serious offenses punishable by imprisonment of ...
A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly
President-elect Donald Trump's bid to toss out his conviction in the Manhattan hush money case based on the US Supreme Court's immunity ruling was rejected by a judge on Monday.
In the U.S. legal system, service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to force that person to respond to the proceeding in a court, body, or other tribunal.