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The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut today announced an agreement with the City of Meriden, Connecticut to resolve allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) by denying the application of the Omar Islamic Center to establish a mosq... More...    $0 (11-06-2020 - CT)

In June 2006, Yalincak pled guilty to bank and wire fraud charges
stemming from a scheme to defraud investors in a sham hedge fund that
Yalincak purported to manage. On April 11, 2007, the district court sentenced
Yalincak to concurrent terms of 42 months’ imprisonment followed by
concurrent terms of supervised release and ordered him to pay $4,182,000 in
restitution to his vic... More...    $0 (04-16-2017 - CT)

Following a jury trial, the defendant, Daniel W. E., was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-70 (a) (2) and one count of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 2001) § 53-21 (a) (2). The victim, his daughter, was between six and nine years old at the time of the assaults. The trial court rendered judgm... More...    $0 (09-07-2016 - CT)

In recent years, the United States and Connecticut Supreme Courts have made major changes in the jurisprudence relating to juvenile sentencing.The law now requires that juvenile offenders facing life without parole or its functional equivalent are entitled to individual consideration that takes into account the mitigating factors of their youth. This case concerns the important question of where ... More...    $0 (08-15-2016 - CT)

The defendant, Donald Saturno, appeals from the judgments of conviction rendered by the trial court following his conditional pleas of nolo contendere, pursuant to General Statutes § 54-94a,1 to onecountofmanufacturingabombinviolationofGeneral Statutes § 53-80a and one count of possession of child pornography in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-196d (a) (1). The defendant en... More...    $0 (07-15-2016 - CT)

In this certified appeal,1 we must decide whether the Appellate Court properly affirmed the judgment of the trial court terminating the parental rights of the respondent father, Olusegun O., as to his minor son, Oreoluwa O.2 See In re Oreoluwa O., 157 Conn. App. 490, 116 A.3d 400 (2015). On appeal, the respondent asserts, inter alia, that the Appellate Court improperlyaffirmedthejudgmentofthetria... More...    $0 (06-01-2016 - CT)

In August 2003, agents of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division
(“Army CID”) received an anonymous tip that Industrial Property Management
(“IPM”), a company providing security for and otherwise maintaining a
government-owned property in Stratford, Connecticut, pursuant to an Army
contract, had engaged in misconduct in connection with that work. In particular,
the... More...    $0 (05-30-2016 - CT)

We have been asked by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to consider whether the ‘‘[g]ood tobacco’’ exception to strict products liability contained in comment (i) to § 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts1 precludes an action in this state against a cigarette manufacturer for including additives and manipulating the nicotine in its cigarettes in a manner that ultimatel... More...    $0 (04-25-2016 - CT)

The respondent, the Commissioner of Correction, appeals after the habeas court granted his petitionforcertificationtoappealfromthecourt’sjudgmentgrantingtheamendedpetitionforawritofhabeas corpus filed by the petitioner, Denis Hickey. On appeal the respondent claims, in part, that the habeas court improperly determined that the petitioner was prejudiced by the legal representation provided him by t... More...    $0 (01-19-2016 - CT)

On May 22, 2012, members of a Drug Enforcement Agency task force went 
to Thompson’s apartment with an arrest warrant. After placing Thompson in 
handcuffs and conducting a protective sweep of the apartment, the officers asked 
if Thompson would consent to a search of the apartment. Thompson eventually 
consented, but he later moved to suppress two digital scales and $2,000 in cash... More...    $0 (12-25-2015 - CT)

Defendant was found guilty of capital felony and sentenced to death. While Defendant’s appeal was pending, the legislature passed Public Act 12-5, which repealed the death penalty for all crimes committed on or after April 25, 2012. On June 12, 2012, the Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s judgment of conviction but reversed his death sentence and remanded for a new penalty phase hearing, concludin... More...    $0 (11-30-2015 - CT)

This case raises the questions of whether a trial court may set a monetary bond as a condition of release when an insanity acquittee is charged with committing new, violent crimes while housed at a maximum security psychiatric facility and, if the acquittee cannot post that bond, whether he may be held in the custody of the Commissioner of Correctionat aprisonwhileawaiting trialonthe newcharges. A... More...    $0 (10-23-2015 - CT)

The following facts and procedural history are relevant to this appeal. Santiago was born in Guatemala to the respondent on April 18, 2009. He was cared for since his birth, however, by Maria G., an Argentinian citizen and legal permanent resident of the United States who resided in Stamford, and, for some of that time, by Henry L., Maria G.’s husband.1 OnOctober16,2012,thecommissionerfiledamotion... More...    $0 (08-22-2015 - CT)

A jury found that the defendant, the
Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted
negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan
Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child
molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking,
to serve as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary
School in Derby (Saint Mary’s School), where he sexually
abus... More...    $0 (06-27-2015 - CT)

In this case, defendant-appellant Stavros M. Ganias appeals from a judgment convicting him, following a jury trial, of tax evasion. He challenges the conviction on the grounds that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the Government copied three of his computer hard drives pursuant to a search warrant and then retained files beyond the scope of the warrant for more than two-and-a-half ye... More...    $0 (06-17-2014 - CT)

The plaintiffs, Pemiola Demiraj, individually and doing business as Eagle Agency, and Halim Demiraj, appeal from the judgment of the trial court, following a jury trial, in favor of the defendants, Tom Uljaj, Eli Gjezo and Adriatic Eagle Air Corporation (Adriatic). On appeal, the plaintiffs claim that the court improperly directed a verdict in favor of the defendants on two counts alleging violati... More...    $0 (09-16-2012 - CT)

This case involves a dispute between an employer, the defendant1 Reflexite Corporation, and its employee, the plaintiff Robin K. Callender, as to whether General Statutes § 31-294c invariably requires an employer, to preserve its right to contest an employee’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits on the merits, either to file a form 43, notice to contest the claim (notice to contest), or ... More...    $0 (08-07-2012 - CT)

The primary issue in this case is whether the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (compact), General Statutes § 17a-175,1 applies to the placement of children with an out-ofstate noncustodial parent. The respondent father2 and his minor children, Emoni W. and Marlon W. (children), appealed to the Appellate Court from the ruling of the trial court that the compact applied to the placem... More...    $0 (07-19-2012 - CT)

The defendant, Orlito A. Trias,1 an obstetrician and gynecologist, appeals2 from the judgment of the trial court, after a jury trial, in favor of the plaintiff, Allison Downs,3 with respect to the allegations that the defendant’s negligence resulted in the plaintiff developing ovarian cancer. The defendant contends that, because the plaintiff’s complaint turned on the defendant’s failure to ... More...    $0 (08-27-2012 - CT)

The plaintiffs, Ronald F. Malone and Carol D. Malone, appeal from the judgment of the trial court dismissing their appeal from the decision of the defendant, the zoning board of appeals of the town of Westport (board), upholding the cease and desist order issued by the town zoning enforcement officer. The order, dated October 21, 2008, prohibited certain activities on their property located at 6 C... More...    $0 (04-04-2012 - CT)

The present case arises from a lease dispute between the landlord plaintiff, Vidiaki, LLC, and the tenant defendant Just Breakfast & Things!!! LLC.1

The plaintiff appeals from the judgment rendered in favor of the defendant after a trial to the court. On appeal, the plaintiff contends that the court erred in (1) ruling that General Statutes § 47a-11 did not apply to commercial tenancies be... More...    $0 (01-10-2012 - CT)

The defendant mortgage lender, Beneficial Mortgage Co. of Connecticut, appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying its motion to open a judgment of strict foreclosure.1 The defendant contends that the court improperly concluded that it lacked authority to open that judgment.2 We disagree and, accordingly, affirm the judgment of the trial court.

In its memorandum of decision, the co... More...    $0 (04-21-2011 - CT)

This appeal arises from an action in which the plaintiff, David Shortell, claims that he sustained injuries as a result of the failure of the named defendant, Norman Cavanagh, a dentist, to obtain his informed consent to a dental procedure.1 On appeal,2 the plaintiff asserts that the trial court improperly dismissed his complaint for failure to comply with General Statutes § 52-190a3 because he f... More...    $0 (03-15-2011 - CT)

This appeal arises from a class action lawsuit filed by the plaintiff, Hong Pham, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, against the defendant, Michael P. Starkowski, the commissioner of social services, challenging the constitutionality of Public Acts, Spec. Sess., September, 2009, No. 09-5, §§ 551 and 642 (Spec. Sess. P.A. 09-5), which effectively terminated certain state... More...    $0 (04-05-2011 - CT)

This appeal arises from an action brought by the plaintiff, Scott Levine, against the defendants, the town of Sterling (town) and its building official, D. Kyle Collins, Jr.,1 relating to the defendants’ refusal to issue to the plaintiff permits to build two additional dwelling units on his property located in the town. The plaintiff appeals2 from the judgment rendered by the trial court in favo... More...    $0 (04-12-2011 - CT)

This appeal raises the question of whether Connecticut law permits an intended parent1 who is neither the biological2 nor the adoptive parent of a child to become a legal parent of that child by means of a valid gestational agreement. The use of technology to accomplish reproduction by means other than sexual intercourse no longer may be considered ‘‘new’’ science, and, indeed, the legisla... More...    $0 (02-01-2011 - CT)

This appeal requires us to decide what facts and circumstances give rise to a plaintiff’s right to recover under the mode of operation rule, an exception to the traditional premises liability doctrine, which dispenses with the requirement that a plaintiff prove that a business owner had actual or constructive notice of the specific unsafe condition giving rise to the plaintiff’s injury. The de... More...    $0 (09-21-2010 - CT)

The principal issue in this consolidated appeal,1 which arises out of a series of disputes2 concerning the management and oversight of a family partnership and various family trusts,3 is whether the plaintiffs’ attorney had apparent authority to make settlement proposals, engage in settlement discussions and bind the plaintiffs to a global settlement agreement with the defendants.4 The plaintiff... More...    $0 (09-28-2010 - CT)

The plaintiffs, Chris K. Sturm and Tammy Sturm, brought this action against the defendants, Harb Development, LLC (Harb Development), and its principal, John J. Harb,1 alleging that their poor workmanship in the construction of the plaintiffs’ new home constituted, inter alia, negligence and fraud, and violated both the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA), General Statutes § 42-110a ... More...    $0 (08-31-2010 - CT)

Men’s professional tennis is a worldwide enterprise and every year, professional tennis players compete in various tournaments around the world. The principal men’s professional tennis events are the four Grand Slams, the Davis Cup, and the ATP Tour, a worldwide professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (“ATPâ€�). This lawsuit arises out of the reorgani... More...    $0 (06-30-2010 - CT)

In this medical malpractice case, which returns to us for a second time,1 we consider two separate appeals. In the first appeal (Docket No. SC 17744), the defendant Scott Casper, a gynecologist, his employer, the named defendant, County Obstetrics and Gynecology Group, P.C. (County Obstetrics), and the defendant Yale University School of Medicine,2 appeal from the judgment of the trial court, rend... More...    $5200000 (06-22-2010 - CT)

The plaintiff, Elaine Wiseman, in her capacity as administratrix of the estate of her deceased son, Bryant Wiseman (decedent), appeals1 from the judgment of the trial court rendered in favor of the named defendant, John J. Armstrong, in his capacity as the commissioner of correction, and others2 in her action for the wrongful death of the decedent while he was incarcerated at Garner correctional i... More...    $0 (03-03-2010 - CT)

As aptly described by the trial court, ‘‘[t]his particular case is the unhappy story of a financially successful [partnership] that became an environment of distrust, rancor and paralysis after the untimely death of [one of the four partners].’’ On one side is the plaintiff, Thomas Brennan, one of the partnership’s founding members. On the other side are the defendants: the named defenda... More...    $0 (08-18-2009 - CT)

This appeal arises out of two separate actions brought by the plaintiffs, Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London (underwriters), AXA Nordstern Art Insurance Corporation (AXA) and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh (National), against, respectively, the defendant, Steven Cooperman (Steven), and the defendant, Nancy Cooperman (Nancy), alleging fraudulent conveyance, statutory theft, conv... More...    $0 (11-05-2008 - CT)

Municipalities ordinarily have a duty of care with respect to the maintenance of public sidewalks, and, under General Statutes § 13a-149,1 they are liable for damages caused by a breach of that duty.

Pursuant to General Statutes § 7-163a,2 however, a municipality may adopt an ordinance that shifts to the owner of the land abutting a public sidewalk both the duty of care and liability with... More...    $0 (08-04-2008 - CT)

This appeal requires us to consider the scope of authority granted to municipalities by General Statutes § 7-148 (c) (7) (A).1 In this action for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, the plaintiff, the Greater New Haven Property Owners Association,2 appeals from the judgment rendered in favor of the defendant, the city of New Haven (city), following a trial to the court.3 On appeal, the ... More...    $0 (07-29-2008 - CT)

The sole issue raised by this appeal is whether an order denying class certification is an appealable final judgment. The plaintiffs,1 thirty-seven persons employed as waiters or waitresses by the defendant, Friendly Ice Cream Corporation, appealed from the order of the trial court to the Appellate Court, which dismissed the appeal for lack of a final judgment. We granted the plaintiffs' pe... More...    $0 (02-05-2008 - CT)

This appeal arises out of an employment discrimination action brought by the plaintiff, Stephen M. Jacobs, against the defendant, General Electric Company, alleging age discrimination in a decision to lay off the plaintiff as part of a reduction in the defendant's workforce. The dispositive issues in this appeal are whether the trial court properly charged the jury regarding the plaintif... More...    $0 (09-19-2005 - CT)

This appeal arises out of an employment discrimination action brought by the plaintiff, Stephen M. Jacobs, against the defendant, General Electric Company, alleging age discrimination in a decision to lay off the plaintiff as part of a reduction in the defendant's workforce. The dispositive issues in this appeal are whether the trial court properly charged the jury regarding the plaintif... More...    $0 (09-02-2005 - CT)

In 2000, the city of New London approved a development
plan that, in the words of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was "projected to create in excess of 1,000 jobs, to increase tax and other revenues, and to revitalize an economically distressed city, including its downtown and waterfront areas." 268 Conn. 1, 5, 843 A. 2d 500, 507 (2004). In assembling the land needed for this project, the... More...    $0 (06-24-2005 - CT)