Title: Dominic Bonomonte v. City of New York

State: new-york

Issuer: New York Appellate Court

Document:

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This memorandum is uncorrected and subject to revision before
publication in the New York Reports.
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No. 238
SSM 30
Dominic Bonomonte,
            Appellant,
        v.
City of New York,
            Respondent.
Submitted by Alan C. Kestenbaum, for appellant.
Submitted by Ronald E. Sternberg, for respondent.
MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed,
with costs, and the certified question answered in the
affirmative.  Even assuming, as plaintiff alleges, that the City
of New York owed plaintiff a duty and breached that duty, the
City was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint
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because it established, as a matter of law, that any negligence
on its part was not a proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries
(see Sheehan v City of New York, 40 NY2d 496, 503 [2006]). 
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules,
order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in
the affirmative, in a memorandum.  Chief Judge Lippman and Judges
Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Jones concur.
Decided October 13, 2011
  
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