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It was a good week for SKDWM. First, Cary Maynard obtained an extremely favorable verdict in the Bronx, with the jury awarding $100,000 less than our client's offer and nearly half-a-million dollars less than the plaintiff's final demand in a certain liability case. Then, Rob Weissman obtained another very favorable verdict in Kings County, with the jury awarding less than half of the plaintiff's final demand - and the exact amount that our client was considering offering had the plaintiff been more reasonable - in another case of certain liability.

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SKDWM is very pleased to report that today we obtained a dismissal with prejudice in a highly unusual, and high exposure, false arrest claim. The plaintiff had been erroneously released from federal prison without being remanded to serve the balance of his concurrent state prison sentence. He remained free for fifteen months before being brought back into custody to serve the minimum-six-months to maximum-two-and-a-half-years remaining on his state sentence. He was then incarcerated for three months before a state court judge granted him credit for the time that he was erroneously at liberty. The plaintiff brought suit against the arresting officers and their employer, claiming violation of his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and contending that he was entitled to credit for his fifteen months erroneously spent at liberty and he should not have been returned to prison. We successfully argued that there was probable cause to return him to custody and that the plaintiff failed to plead a cause of action for violation of his Constitutional rights. A copy of the opinion and order is attached.

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SKD in the News: The Times-Union of Albany recently published the attached article discussing the impact of a legal argument first made by SKD's Rob Weissman identifying a flaw in the Adult Survivors Act (C.P.L.R. 214-j). According to the article, our argument has been adopted by "attorneys for dozens of municipal agencies across New York" who have "file[d] nearly identical motions seeking dismissal of the cases filed against them under the Adult Survivors Act".

SKD is pleased to announce that today we won summary judgment for our client, obtaining a dismissal in a complex flooding case in which the plaintiffs sought millions of dollars for alleged property damage and personal injuries. Decision attached.