BELCASTRO v. ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN, N.Y.

2022-02143. Index No. 400007/19.

213 A.D.3d 800 (2023)

184 N.Y.S.3d 367

2023 NY Slip Op 00838

Thomas Belcastro, Respondent, v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided February 15, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP, Lake Success, NY ( Christopher Simone , Robert M. Ortiz , Jeremy S. Rosof , and Lena Holubnyczyj of counsel), for appellant Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York.

Scahill Law Group, P.C., Bethpage, NY ( James G. Flynn and Francis J. Scahill of counsel), for appellants St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church and St. Margaret Catholic Academy.

Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY ( Jason P. Weinstein of counsel), for respondent.

Duffy, J.P., Maltese, Dowling and Warhit, JJ., concur.


In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for negligence, the defendant Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York appeals, and the defendants St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church and St. Margaret Catholic Academy separately appeal, from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (George J. Silver, J.), dated August 23, 2021. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied those branches of the motion of the defendant Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York and the...

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