Legal Opinion
MATTER OF WALSH v. Scoppetta
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 20, 2011No. 225PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
On New Year’s Eve in 2003, petitioner Robert Walsh, a firefighter in the New York City Fire Department, got into a “loud and heated” argument with a fellow firefighter in the kitchen of the firehouse. Their dispute, fueled by the prohibited consumption of alcohol, escalated from mutual taunting and provocative insults to assault when the other firefighter hit petitioner over the head from behind with a metal chair, knocking him to the floor.
Petitioner suffered traumatic brain injuries in the New…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Meyer v. Board of TrusteesNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Canfora v. Board of Trustees of the Police Pension FundNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- Walsh v. ScopettaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
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