JACKSON v. BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH

2019-10485. Index No. 30910/13.

192 A.D.3d 868 (2021)

140 N.Y.S.3d 755

2021 NY Slip Op 08223

Janet M. Jackson, Appellant, v. Bethel A.M.E. Church et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided March 17, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jakubowski, Robertson, Maffei, Goldsmith & Tartaglia, LLP, Saint James, NY ( James J. Herz of counsel), for appellant.

Lovas & Naqvi, Garden City, NY ( Claudia P. Lovas of counsel), for respondents Bethel A.M.E. Church and African American Methodist Episcopal Church and Congregation of Bay Shore, NY.

Charles F. Harms, Jr. , Garden City, NY ( Danielle R. Schilling of counsel), for respondent D'Alessandro & Son Contractors, Inc.

Austin, J.P., Miller, LaSalle and Barros, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.

On the afternoon of March 31, 2013, the plaintiff was descending the exterior staircase of a church owned by the defendants Bethel A.M.E. Church and African American Methodist Episcopal Church and Congregation of Bay Shore, NY (hereinafter together the Bethel defendants), when she allegedly fell and was injured. In...

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