Kahan v. Spira

Oct 25, 2011
Versions:88 A.D.3d 964
932 N.Y.S.2d 76
932 N.Y.2d 76
Stevenson thought silently. The user wants me to convert a 3-page legal document into semantic HTML. **Analysis of the document:** - **Page 1:** - Starts with the conclusion of a case (likely *Baines v G&D Ventures, Inc.* or similar, but looking at the header on page 964, it‘s a continuation). - Then a new case starts: `CHAYA KAHAN, as Administrator of the Estate of LEIB BLUM, Deceased, Respondent, v DAVID SPIRA, Appellant. [932 NYS2d 76]`. - This is the “MAIN opinion” I should convert according to the instructions (“For multi-opinion documents, convert only the MAIN opinion — the one with a complete case caption and full opinion body. Skip partial content from a previous case“). - **Case Information for Kahan v. Spira:** - Name: `CHAYA KAHAN, as Administrator of the Estate of LEIB BLUM, Deceased, Respondent, v DAVID SPIRA, Appellant.` - Citation: `932 NYS2d 76` - Docket: Not explicitly provided in the caption, but standard for NY AD cases. I will look for other metadata. The OCR shows “932 NYS2d 76“. - Court: The text mentions “The Supreme Court” (meaning trial court in NY) and that the “defendant appeals“. The judges listed are Rivera, J.P., Balkin, etc., and the citation style indicates New York Appellate Division, Second Department. - Date: The text doesn‘t explicitly give the decision date in the screenshot header, but I will extract what is there. - **Content structure:** - Page 964: Case Caption, start of facts. - Page 965: Continuation of facts, legal analysis (leave to amend, wrongful death tolling, summary judgment denial). - Page 966: Conclusion of the case, signature block (concurring judges). - After Kahan v. Spira, another case starts: `Sharona Kermanshachi...`. I should skip this according to the “Multi-Opinion Documents” rule. **Formatting details:** - `midpage-ps` markers for pages 964, 965, 966. - `` tags for citations. - `` tags for statutes like CPLR and EPTL. - Rejoin hyphenated words: `al-legedly` -> `allegedly`, `adminis-tration` -> `administration`, `de-fendant‘s` -> `defendant‘s`, `estab-lishing` -> `establishing`, `admis-sible` -> `admissible`, `affi-davit` -> `affidavit`, `ac-curacy` -> `accuracy`, `col-lectively` -> `collectively` (wait, collectively is in the next case, skip). **Case Info extraction:** - Short name: `Kahan v. Spira` - Court: `N.Y. App. Div.` (Appellate Division, Second Department is implied by the citation and judges). - Citation: `932 N.Y.S.2d 76` - Date: Not visible on the pages provided. I will omit the attribute if not found. **Let‘s refine the case name and citations:** - *Baines v G&D Ventures, Inc.*, 64 AD3d 528, 529 [2009] -> `Baines v G&D Ventures, Inc., 64 AD3d 528, 529 [2009]` - *Taylor v Rochdale Vil., Inc.*, 60 AD3d 930, 931-932 [2009] - *Alvarez v Prospect Hosp.*, 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986] - *Lucido v Mancuso*, 49 AD3d 220, 232 [2008] - *Jablonski v Jakaitis*, 85 AD3d 969 [2011] - *Truebright Co., Ltd. v Lester*, 84 AD3d 1065 [2011] - CPLR 210 (a) -> `CPLR 210 (a)` - EPTL 5-4.1 [1] -> `EPTL 5-4.1 [1]` - CPLR 3116 - *Moffett v Gerardi*, 75 AD3d 496 [2010] - *Marmer v IF USA Express, Inc.*, 73 AD3d 868 [2010] - *Martinez v 123-16 Liberty Ave. Realty Corp.*, 47 AD3d 901 [2008] - *Republic Long Is., Inc. v Andrew J. Vanacore, Inc.*, 29 AD3d 665 [2006] - *Harty v Kornish Distribs.*, 119 AD2d 729 [1986] - *Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr.*, 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985] **Page breaks:** - Page 964 starts before the caption of Kahan v. Spira. The prompt says skip partial content from a previous case. So I start from the Kahan caption. - Page 965 break is in the middle of a paragraph: “denied the de- / fendant‘s cross motion“. - Page 966 break is in the middle of a sentence: “determining the ac- / curacy“. **Step-by-step Construction:** 1. `` for Kahan v Spira. 2. `` before the caption. 3. Opinion text starting with the caption. 4. `midpage-ps` markers inline. 5. Close out after the concurrence line. Wait, page 964 OCR shows: “Chaya Kahan, as Administrator of the Estate of Leib Blum, Deceased, Respondent, v David Spira, Appellant. [932 NYS2d 76]” This is the starting point. Page 965: “denied the de-fendant‘s cross motion” -> `denied the defendant‘s cross motion`. Page 966: “determining the ac-curacy” -> `determining the accuracy`. Case names: - *Baines v. G&D Ventures, Inc.* - *Taylor v. Rochdale Vil., Inc.* - *Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp.* - *Lucido v. Mancuso* - *Jablonski v. Jakaitis* - *Truebright Co., Ltd. v. Lester* - *Moffett v. Gerardi* - *Marmer v. IF USA Express, Inc.* - *Martinez v. 123-16 Liberty Ave. Realty Corp.* - *Republic Long Is., Inc. v. Andrew J. Vanacore, Inc.* - *Harty v. Kornish Distribs.* - *Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr.* Court for all these is `N.Y. App. Div.` or `N.Y.` (for NY2d cases). One detail: The caption on page 964 has a black bar above it. It‘s the start of the case. The judges for this case are at the end: `Dillon, J.P., Balkin, Eng and Cohen, JJ., concur.` The judges mentioned at the top of 964 (`Rivera, J.P., Florio, Dickerson and Lott, JJ., concur.`) belong to the previous case. I will skip them. Let‘s double check the law citations. CPLR 210 (a) -> `N.Y. C.P.L.R. 210(a)` EPTL 5-4.1 [1] -> `N.Y. Est. Powers & Trusts Law § 5-4.1[1]` CPLR 3116 -> `N.Y. C.P.L.R. 3116` One hyphenated word to rejoin: “al-legedly” (found in the first case‘s block, but also later in Kahan). “de-fendant‘s” on 964-965. “adminis-tration” on 964. “Feb-ruary” on 964. “estab-lishing” on 965. “admis-sible” on 965. “evi-dence” on 965. “affi-davit” on 965. “ac-curacy” on 966. “suf-ficiency” on 966. The caption has a bracketed citation: `[932 NYS2d 76]`. I‘ll put that in the citation field in Case Information. One complexity: The first paragraph of the Kahan case text on page 964 is: “On December 23, 2007...“. Wait, the OCR for page 964 shows: `Chaya Kahan, as Administrator of the Estate of Leib Blum, Deceased, Respondent, v David Spira, Appellant. [932 NYS2d 76]—` Then text: `On December 23, 2007...` There is no “Ordered that...” section visible, just the facts. I will follow the OCR/Screenshot text. Let‘s re-examine page 964 screenshot. There is a line separator and then the caption. Then a large black block (redaction?). Then the text “On December 23, 2007...“. I will ignore the blacked-out area as it contains no text. Final check on Case Info: Case Name: `CHAYA KAHAN, as Administrator of the Estate of LEIB BLUM, Deceased, Respondent, v DAVID SPIRA, Appellant.` Short Name: `Kahan v. Spira` Citation: `932 N.Y.S.2d 76` Court: `N.Y. App. Div.` Let‘s do the HTML.