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SURIA v. SHIFFMAN

67 N.Y.2d 87 (1986)

Luis Suria, Respondent, v. Felix Shiffman, Appellant, et al., Defendant, and Avtar S. Dhaliwal, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Dachs and Bonnie S. Kurtz for Felix Shiffman, appellant.

Michael A. Ellenberg, Leon E. Roday and Lance A. Warrick for Avtar S. Dhaliwal, appellant.

Emilio Nunez and Alexander J. Wulwick for respondent.

Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

Chief Judge WACHTLER.

This action arises from a course of medical treatment initiated by plaintiff, a transsexual, who sought to have his breasts augmented. He testified that, in July and again in December 1974, defendant Shiffman injected silicone into both his breasts. By March 1975, his breasts became sore and red, and in December 1975, plaintiff returned to Shiffman...

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