Dean v. City of Buffalo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Unsupported factual assertions made only in attorney’s affidavits or memoranda do not suffice to raise triable issues of fact.”
• incidents occurring after incident with plaintiff did not raise “| questions of fact about whether defendant negligently failed to supervise
• “I cannot conclude as a matter of law whether the ... defendants’ duty to exercise reasonable care to protect its patrons encompassed the obligation to answer every call to the front desk.”
• “New York caselaw draws a critical distinction between direction by the employer as to the work to be performed by an independent contractor, on the one hand, and control over the ‘method and means’ of the performance of that work, on the other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).