Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Wythe Place, LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 22, 2015No. 16376 302010/10PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Julia I. Rodriguez, J.), entered July 31, 2014, which granted defendant Wythe Place, LLC’s (Wythe) motion to reargue its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and upon reargument, granted the motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff’s General Municipal Law § 205-e claim was not barred by the companion statute to the “firefighter’s rule,” which imposes absolute liability where a police officer is injured in the line of duty as a result of statutory or regulatory violations (see Giuffrida v Citibank Corp., 100…
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