a. There shall be a police department the head of which shall be the police commissioner who shall be appointed by the mayor and shall, unless sooner removed, hold office for a term of five years. b. Whenever in the judgment of the mayor or the governor the public interests shall so re...
Another issue considered by the Court was whether one of the defendants, Bovis, was liable as an agent for either the owner or general contractor under the Labor Law. Since this is an issue that comes up fairly frequently in Labor Law cases, the Court's concise summary of the applicable l...
See id. (identifying four factors as "(1) interrelation of operations, (2) centralized control of labor relations, (3) common management, and (4) common ownership or financial control"). In this Circuit, this analysis has been confined to two corporate contexts: first, where the plaintiff ...
Initially, we address the merits of plaintiff's cause of action under Labor Law § 240(1). Plaintiff's testimony that he fell and was injured when the scaffolding on which he was working moved establishes prima facie that the statute was violated and that the violation was a proximate c...