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Herbert Kolbe, et al., Appellants,v.Christine J. Tibbetts,, et al., Respondents.

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17 Cited authorities

  1. Greenfield v. Philles Records

    98 N.Y.2d 562 (N.Y. 2002)   Cited 1,913 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding a "written agreement that is complete, clear and unambiguous on its face must be enforced according to the plain meaning of its terms"

  2. Chemical Workers v. Pittsburgh Glass

    404 U.S. 157 (1971)   Cited 628 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding retirees are not "employees" within the bargaining unit

  3. Pearson v. Columbia Briargate

    465 U.S. 1007 (1984)   Cited 233 times
    Concluding that a conviction was improper where the jury charge contained a non-indicted theory of murder

  4. Riverside South Planning Corp. v. CRP/Extell Riverside, L.P.

    2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 8675 (N.Y. 2009)   Cited 299 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that where a contract is unambiguous it will be enforced according to its terms and courts may not add or excise terms

  5. Reiss v. Financial Performance Corporation

    97 N.Y.2d 195 (N.Y. 2001)   Cited 373 times
    Holding courts "may not by construction add or excise terms, nor distort the meaning of those used and thereby make a new contract for the parties under the guise of interpreting the writing."

  6. Intern. U., United Auto., Aero., v. Yard-Man

    716 F.2d 1476 (6th Cir. 1983)   Cited 407 times   51 Legal Analyses
    Holding that there was "sufficient evidence" of intent to vest retirees with benefits "in the language of agreement itself

  7. Matter of Jacob

    86 N.Y.2d 651 (N.Y. 1995)   Cited 138 times
    Holding that “the unmarried partner of a child's biological [parent], whether heterosexual or homosexual, who is raising the child together with the biological parent, can become the child's second parent by means of adoption.”

  8. Matter of McDonald Police Benevolent Assn. v. City

    92 N.Y.2d 326 (N.Y. 1998)   Cited 118 times
    Holding that retiree health benefits are not "terms and conditions of employment," finding that while "[h]ealth benefits for current employees can be a form of compensation, and thus a term of employment that is a mandatory subject of negotiation," "a public employer's statutory duty to bargain does not extend to retirees"

  9. Corhill Corp. v. S.D. Plants, Inc.

    9 N.Y.2d 595 (N.Y. 1961)   Cited 123 times
    Preferring an interpretation that gives reasonable and effective meaning to all terms of the contract

  10. People v. Moret

    35 Misc. 3d 1205 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2012)   Cited 19 times
    Holding advancement of money to fund lawsuit, and contingent right to receive attorneys' fees as repayment, was not loan subject to usury laws