Legal Opinion

Blanco v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided August 1, 1996PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Milonas, J. P.

We are called upon to consider the plight of numerous plaintiffs with different or multiple kinds of repetitive stress injuries (RSI), allegedly caused over time by the use of data entry keyboards manufactured by one or more of the various defendants. In what is referred to as the "master decision” of *160the IAS Court (a single discussion of the applicable law, with multiple orders), the overwhelming majority of the complaints were dismissed as time barred under CPLR 214 (167 Misc 2d 496). These plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of their complaints; in those cases…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Schmidt v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1936
  2. Flanagan v. Mount Eden General HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
  3. Snyder v. Town Insulation, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1993
  4. Di Marco v. Hudson Valley Blood ServicesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
  5. Consorti v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1995

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Blanco v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1997
  2. Wesley G. Thorn Cheri Thorn v. International Business MacHines Inc., Honeywell, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
  3. Coughlin v. International Business Machines Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
  4. Dorsey v. Apple Computers, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 1996
  5. Pace v. International Business Machines Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998

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