Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language *(Revised for Fall '25)

Resource 4 . 5 . 2

5 minutes

Alaimo v. Town of Fort Ann ("The Broken Dam Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

This case is in many ways like the previous case, Finlandia. Should it come out the same? Does it? What facts make the difference?

New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division

63 A.D.3d 1481, 883 N.Y.S.2d 321

2009-06-25

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