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In September 2018, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the trial court’s order granting our motion to dismiss the complaint in this toxic tort premises liability case.  The plaintiff, the child of a former employee of the Long Island Lighting Company (“LILCO”), commenced this action to recover damages for injuries he…

The Court of Appeals of Louisiana reversed the trial court’s denial of a helmet company’s summary judgment motion following argument of the company’s appeal on August 15, 2018.  The Court of Appeals ordered that the helmet company’s summary judgment motion be granted and the case be dismissed.  

Bryon Friedman and Rob Wilson secured a significant decision from the Supreme Court, New York County, granting partial summary judgment dismissing strict product liability and breach of warranty claims brought by a customer who claims she was burned while receiving a highlighting treatment at a beauty salon.  The treatment involved wrapping locks of hair in…

On June 18, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to review a state appellate decision upholding a jury’s unanimous finding that a bicyclist who received quadriplegic injuries was wearing a non-defective helmet. The state’s highest court denied the petition for certification by the injured Carl Lawson and his wife in their challenge to the…

A Littleton Park team led by partner Eric Goldberg and of counsel Bryon Friedman successfully obtained an order dismissing the contract claims in a third-party complaint against our healthcare client in New York state court.   The third-party plaintiff, a medical diagnostic company, asserted claims against our client for contractual indemnity and breach of contract for…

In May, 2017, the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas granted Littleton Park’s cosmetics manufacturer client summary judgment in a premises liability matter.  The trial court found that the Plaintiff failed to establish the prima facie elements of duty and breach as required to reach the jury.  Plaintiff subsequently appealed the trial court’s summary judgment…

The New Jersey Appellate Division unanimously upheld a defense verdict achieved by Littleton Joyce Ughetta Park & Kelly in Lawson v. Bell Sports. The Court affirmed numerous evidentiary and procedural rulings made by the trial court. Carl Lawson was mountain biking when he lost control of his bicycle and flipped over the handlebars. He landed…

Michael Bai, Dennis Dozis and local counsel successfully moved to dismiss a leading manufacturer of construction machinery and engines from an action pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The court accepted our argument that the plaintiff’s claims against the manufacturer were time-barred because the co-defendant named our client…

Dan Kain, Scott Toomey and Rob Wilson obtained a rare Philadelphia County summary judgment on behalf of one of the firm’s cosmetic manufacturer clients.  As the firm’s client did not own, lease, possess, control or maintain the subject premises, it did not owe any legal duty to the plaintiff.  Even if the duty element existed,…

Dennis Dozis and Dejan Kezunovic defeated plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment as to liability on plaintiff’s Labor Law 240(1) claim on the grounds that plaintiff was acting as a volunteer, rather than a covered worker, when he allegedly fell while painting a fire escape ladder. The order extends the limited line of precedent carving out…