Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v. Long Island Rail Road

Decided November 17, 1987. Fritz Winfred Alexander II wrote the opinion for the court.

70 N.Y.2d 382 · Cited 1,648 times

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• North Shore Bottling Co. v. C. Schmidt & Sons, Inc. · 22 N.Y.2d 171
• Parsa v. State of New York · 64 N.Y.2d 143
• Smith v. Kirkpatrick · 305 N.Y. 66
• Farash v. Sykes Datatronics, Inc. · 59 N.Y.2d 500
• Grombach Productions, Inc. v. Waring · 59 N.E.2d 425

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