Plaintiff alleged that on May 20, 2008, she slipped and fell on water in the Garden Center of a large retail store, sustaining injuries to her cervical, lumbar and thoracic spine. The Supreme Court, Suffolk County, granted our Motion to Dismiss plaintiff’s Complaint on the grounds that plaintiff failed to timely serve process and the…

A customer of one of our clients, a national retailer, brought a claim with the Division of Human Rights that she was discriminated against on the basis of her alleged disability. The store is located on the second floor of a mall. During the holiday season, the store stays open later than the mall. Once…

Plaintiff commenced an action in Supreme Court, Suffolk County against our client, a large national retailer. Plaintiff, who since moved to Florida, alleged he slipped and fell on ice in the parking lot adjacent to the store. We moved for dismissal of plaintiff’s action on the ground that plaintiff refused to return to New York…

Plaintiff sued our client, a large national retailer. She claimed she tripped and fell on the edge of a tree well within the Common Area of the shopping center. She claimed there was a one inch height differential between the concrete edge and the mulch inside the tree well. Plaintiff claimed that she suffered a…

During a Black Friday sale, our client, a large national retailer, closed off side aisles near its registers for crowd control purposes. The store placed metal posts with a red velvet rope at the end of each aisle. Plaintiff claimed she tripped over the rope as she was entering the line from one of the…

Summary judgment in favor of our client, a national retail corporation, was upheld on appeal. Plaintiff sued our client after she tripped and fell over a cement parking barrier located on the sidewalk of a retail store. The barrier was affixed to the sidewalk and designed to hold shopping carts. Plaintiff claimed that our client…

This case involved an accident where the plaintiff claimed she slipped in dirty laundry detergent on the floor in a main aisle at our client’s department store. We moved for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff could not establish notice, arguing that the plaintiffs’ observations about the condition of the spill were insufficient to…

This case involves a claim by the plaintiff, an attorney appearing pro se, that the Bank violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (“CUTPA”) by issuing a gift card with an expiration date. Plaintiff’s gift card was issued pursuant to a retailer’s gift card program administered by the Bank. The gift card purchased by plaintiff…

The Firm obtained dismissal of an action commenced by a consumer alleging that she was fraudulently induced to refinance her vehicle in violation of, among other things, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) of the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organization Act (“RICO”). The court credited our argument that the complaint was barred for want of subject matter…

The Firm successfully defended a major electronics retailer against a consumer’s allegations that he was discriminated against on the basis of his religion and national origin.  The store security requested that the customer leave the store after suspecting him of stealing certain items.  We moved for summary judgment arguing that the employees’ actions do not…