Trisvan v County of Monroe
2008 NY Slip Op 07316 [55 AD3d 1282]
October 3, 2008
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


Sarah D. Trisvan, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of William L. Trisvan, Deceased, Appellant, v County of Monroe et al., Respondents.

[*1] Finucane & Hartzell, LLP, Pittsford (Michael Steinberg of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Daniel M. DeLaus, Jr., County Attorney, Rochester (Howard A. Stark of counsel), for defendants-respondents.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (Evelyn Frazee, J.), entered May 16, 2007. The order, among other things, granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: When this case was before us on a prior appeal, we determined that defendants, the County of Monroe and its Sheriff, cannot be held liable for the alleged negligence of Sheriff's deputies who were working at the Monroe County Correctional Facility when plaintiff's decedent sustained fatal injuries (Trisvan v County of Monroe, 26 AD3d 875 [2006], lv dismissed 6 NY3d 891 [2006]). Our determination is "the law of the case and cannot be disturbed on this appeal" (Scaffold-Russ Dilworth v Shared Mgt. Group, 1 AD3d 951, 952 [2003], lv denied 2 NY3d 705 [2004]; see Young v Tseng, 23 AD3d 552 [2005]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Hurlbutt, Martoche, Green and Gorski, JJ.