CITIES, TORT LAWYERS CLASH OVER MUNICIPAL IMMUNITY
Two powerful adversaries thundered before the state Supreme Court Dec. 4---debating the meaning of silence. Attorneys for Connecticut cities and lawyers who represent tort plaintiffs have diametrically opposing views on whether a 1987 law creates a right to directly sue municipalities for negligence. Trumbull advocate Arthur C. Laske III, representing the City of Bridgeport....

GHOST-BUSTING WARRENS AWARDED $300,000 DAMAGES FROM ICY FALL
Ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren were awarded $300,000 from the town of Monroe for injuries Lorraine Warren suffered when she slipped on a patch of ice in front of her home more than five years ago.

PETERS’ THIRD WAY
The Supreme Court last week issued three opinions on whether the Constitution guarantees a right to maintain minimal subsistence. The four-justices majority in Moore vs. Ganim upheld the status quo, declaring no such right exists. Dissenting Justices Robert I. Berdon and Joette Katz went the opposite direction, finding a governmental obligation to provide for the poor.

SOLOS CONNECT WITH CONTRACT LAWYERS
For solo and small firm practicioners, co-counsel arrangements can be the next best thing to working in a full service firm and having a host of specialists on the same floor. But that's not the only alternative to going it alone.

DISMISSAL OF TEACHER’S WRONGFUL ARREST SUIT UPHELD
The State Appellate Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former city official and teacher who claimed he was wrongfully arrested by Bridgeport police on charges of assaulting students. The appeals court ruled that the former teacher, Leonard L. Crone, had not presented sufficient evidence to prove his contention that city officials had conspired against him because of his earlier political work.

PART TRANSPORT, PART SAFETY DEVICE
More than seven years after the alleged rape of a 17-year-old special education student inside Bassick High School, the state Supreme Court ruled July 23 that the Bridgeport Board of Education’s auto insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify the girl’s negligence claim against the school district.

CHILD’S DISAPPEARANCE CREATES A CATCH-22
Five months after her 10-year old daughter Bianca LeBron disappeared from Elias Howe School in Bridgeport last November, Carmelita Torres went to Probate Judge Paul Joseph Ganim to be appointed administratrix of her child’s estate. The mother was caught in a legal time warp.