Legal Opinion
Turturro ex rel. Turturro v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 22, 2016PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fahey, J.
On this appeal, we are asked to determine whether the City of New York was acting in a proprietary or governmental capacity when it failed to conduct an adequate study of whether traffic calming measures should be implemented after it received numerous, repeated complaints of speeding on a Brooklyn roadway. We are also asked to determine whether the evidence was legally sufficient to uphold the jury’s verdict regarding the issues of proximate cause and the City’s qualified immunity.
We hold that because the acts or omissions claimed to have caused the injury were…
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- Miller v. State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
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