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Newsletter
May 2024

Trials Division

Personnel
Five-day suspension recommended.

ALJ Jonathan Fogel recommended a five-day suspension for a project manager who used improper language in an email to her supervisors.

Dep’t of Environmental Protection v. Layman https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/23_cases/23-2096.pdf, OATH Index No. 2096/23 (Apr. 12, 2024).

Read more about Dep’t of Environmental Protection v. Layman https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/decisions.page#personnel.

Licensing
Dismissal of fitness proceeding recommended.

ALJ Kevin F. Casey recommended dismissing a fitness proceeding against a TLC driver who tested positive for oxymorphone, finding that the driver had unknowingly ingested a controlled substance.

Taxi & Limousine Comm’n v. Guzman https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/24_Cases/24-2385.pdf, OATH Index No. 2385/24 (Apr. 8, 2024), adopted, Comm’r Dec. (Apr. 9, 2024).

Read more about Taxi & Limousine Comm’n v. Guzman https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/decisions.page#licensing.

Real Property
Denial of protected occupancy application recommended.

ALJ Michael D. Turilli recommended denying the protected occupancy application of a tenant residing in a building covered under the Loft Law, finding that the applicant’s unit was deregulated by a former tenant’s sale of improvements.

Matter of Angelo https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/24_Cases/24-881.pdf, OATH Index No. 881/24 (Apr. 23, 2024).

Read more about Matter of Angelo https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/decisions.page#property.

Vehicle Seizure
Police Department may retain a seized vehicle.

ALJ Kara J. Miller determined that the Police Department may retain a vehicle seized as an alleged instrumentality of crime.

Police Dep’t v. Langlaise https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/24_Cases/24-2668md.pdf, OATH Index No. 2668/24, mem. dec. (Apr. 17, 2024).

Read more about Police Dep’t v. Langlaise https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/decisions.page#vehicle.

Procedure
NYC Transit Authority permitted to intervene in prevailing wage case.

ALJ Kevin F. Casey granted the New York City Transit Authority’s (“NYCTA”) motion to intervene as a respondent in a prevailing wage case brought by the Office of the Comptroller.

Office of the Comptroller v. Fleetwash, Inc. & Anthony DiGiovanni https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/24_Cases/24-2377md.pdf, OATH Index No. 2377/24 (Apr. 4, 2024).

Read more about Office of the Comptroller v. Fleetwash, Inc. & Anthony DiGiovanni https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/decisions.page#procedure.

Appeals Division Decisions

(Appeals from the Hearings Division)
Health code violations sustained.

An appeals decision affirmed a hearing decision sustaining charges against a food service establishment for presence of a live animal and harborage conditions conducive to rodents, insects, or other pests.

DOHMH v. JM 43, Inc. dba Fillmore Delicatessen https://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/oath_hearings/01398-24F0.pdf, Appeal No. 01398-24F0 (Apr. 23, 2024).

Read more about DOHMH v. JM 43, Inc. dba Fillmore Delicatessen, and other Appeals Division cases https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/trials/benchnotes-newsletter.page#appeals.

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