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Bessie Caldwell et al., Appellants,v.Cablevision Systems Corporation, et al., Defendants, Communications Specialists, Inc., Respondent.

Brief

56 Cited authorities

  1. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,491 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"

  2. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,689 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an error is prejudicial "if an appellate court concludes that there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility, in the particular case that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred"

  3. Fahy v. Connecticut

    375 U.S. 85 (1963)   Cited 1,309 times
    Holding that “petitioner should have had a chance to show that his admissions were induced by being confronted with the illegally seized evidence”

  4. Cohen v. Hallmark Cards

    45 N.Y.2d 493 (N.Y. 1978)   Cited 1,945 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the standard of review in assessing a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict is whether there is "simply no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could possibly lead rational [people] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence at trial"

  5. Small v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.

    94 N.Y.2d 43 (N.Y. 1999)   Cited 694 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that where the underlying tort theory fails, "there is no independent tort to provide a basis for liability under . . . concert of action, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting theories"

  6. Parochial v. Board of Educ

    60 N.Y.2d 539 (N.Y. 1983)   Cited 827 times
    Holding that § 3813's notice of claim requirement "is not satisfied by presentment to any other individual or body"

  7. People v. Harrison

    57 N.Y.2d 470 (N.Y. 1982)   Cited 265 times
    In People v. Harrison (57 N.Y.2d 470, 476), the Court of Appeals held that: "Confining the occupants to the car, even temporarily, is at least equivalent to a stop.

  8. U.S. v. Persico

    832 F.2d 705 (2d Cir. 1987)   Cited 224 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a RICO conspiracy continues until the objectives of the conspiracy are either "accomplished or abandoned"

  9. Hartman v. Mountain Valley Brew Pub, Inc.

    301 A.D.2d 570 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)   Cited 130 times
    Finding plaintiff's "admission at her deposition that she could not identify the alleged defect that caused her to fall is fatal to the complaint since the trier of fact would be required to base a finding of proximate cause upon nothing more than speculation"

  10. Khan v. New York State Department of Health

    96 N.Y.2d 879 (N.Y. 2001)   Cited 127 times

    Decided July 2, 2001. Appeal, by permission of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, entered July 20, 2000, which in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in that court pursuant to Public Health Law § 230-c), modified, on the law, and, as modified, confirmed a determination of respondent Administrative Review Board for Professional Medical Conduct finding that petitioner committed professional misconduct