REPORTING IMPORTANT OPINIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
AND IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS OF OTHER COURTS

Editor: DAVID D. SIEGEL

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© Copyright 2013

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Additurs and Remittiturs: Parties’ Procedural Options When Faced with Additurs or Remittiturs Are Reviewed

The “Necessarily Affects” Provision: Court Takes More Generous View of Provision Whereby Order During Action Can Get Review as Part of Later Appeal from Final Judgment

Sales Taxes: Method Amazon Uses to Help Sales to New Yorkers — Contracting to Have Local Websites Include a “Link” to Amazon — Suffices as Basis for Taxation of Amazon Sales to New Yorkers

Wage Laws: Wage Minimums Set by Labor Law for Work Projects of Public Agencies Don’t Apply to New Firehouse Project of Village Volunteer Fire Department

Eviction from Public Housing: Penalty of Eviction for Defrauding City Housing Authority by Concealing $27,000 of Income Is not so Disproportionate as to Shock Conscience

Zoning: Alleged Evils of Check-Cashing Establishments Can’t Be Remedied with Zoning Barriers

Reinsurer’s Rights: Insurer’s Settlement in Asbestos Cases, and its Allocation among the Various Settled Claims, Affects Reinsurer’s Liability and Poses Issues of Fact Barring Summary Judgment