Gregory v. Gregg  The defendant driver in a personal injury automobile car accident case involving ice and snow could not challenge the court’s instruction to the jury regarding the sudden emergency doctrine because no jury interrogatories were filed.

Stancuna v. Stancuna  A divorce court held that it was appropriate for the children to travel out of the country with their mother without giving advance notice to the father in a case where the mother had taken significant steps to establish a home and career in Connecticut, the father engaged in excessive litigation, failed to pursue a job to help support the children, failed to seek help for his psychological issues, and failed to accept the importance to the children of the mother’s overseas family.

Eisenlohr v. Eisenlohr  A divorce court can make orders that restrict a parent’s ability to seek to modify custody and visitation.  Such orders are appropriate when a parent fails to follow family court orders, causes the parties and guardian ad litem to waste money and resources, and makes false reports to government agencies such as DCF.

State v. Ernesto  The Connecticut “sexting” statute was meant to provide a misdemeanor alternative for youths who send or receive obscene photographs of themselves.  An adult who takes obscene photographs of a minor may still face criminal charges for the felony of employing a minor in an obscene performance and this crime may be charged against a person who takes the photographs solely for personal use.

Canty v. Otto  A division of assets as part of a divorce case can be considered a transfer under the fraudulent conveyance act.  The court found that the husband had transferred most of his assets to his wife in their divorce agreement in an attempt to protect the assets from being attached in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a woman that the husband had been accused of killing.

Ruiz v. Victory Properties, LLC  A landlord who allowed buckets, trash, rocks and broken concrete pieces to remain in an area where children played could be sued for personal injury when a child carried one of the concrete pieces to a third floor porch and threw it off, causing serious injuries to another child.

Wood v. Club, LLC  In a personal injury case stemming from an assault at a bar, the trial court properly allowed an experienced bouncer to testify as an expert witness, even though he had no formal education, certification or license in the field of bar security, because his on the job training gave him knowledge regarding bar security that was not common to the average person.

Parlato v. Parlato  A Connecticut divorce court had the power to issue a contempt order that a spouse return to the marital estate the money that he withdrew from a joint home equity line of credit four weeks before his wife filed for divorce.

Mollica v. Toohey A Connecticut court ruled in a personal injury case that members of a household should have sued within two years of first realizing that toxic mold, bacteria and contamination in their apartment was causing them to have lung and breathing problems.

Lynch v. Lynch  In the final divorce judgment, the divorce court should have included the amount of back support that was not paid pursuant to the orders entered while the divorce case was in divorce court 

Himmelstein v. Windsor  A bicyclist who suffered a personal injury in an accident when he hit a radar sign placed by the Town of Windsor on a State highway (Route 159) should have sued the State of Connecticut and not the town because on State highways the State has the duty to keep the roadways safe for travel.  The court stated that the way in which a hazard is created does not matter in a case brought under the Connecticut statute for accidents on State maintained streets, roads, bridges and sidewalks; what matters is that the hazard exists, causing a personal injury.

Atkinson v. Santore  A Connecticut court threw out a personal injury case brought under the dog bite statute because the dogs did not attack the plaintiff but only went near a rabid racoon before the plaintiff brought the dogs into the house where she was babysitting.  The court noted that the dogs "did not bite, attack, scratch, menace or othewise directly harm the plaintiff," who received rabies shots on the advise of her doctor.

State v. Fontaine  The following evidence was sufficient for the defendant to be found guilty of driving while under the influence (DUI / DWI):  the defendant drove his moped erratically, his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, he smelled of liquor, he failed the walk and turn test, he refused the one leg stand test, and he refused to complete the horizontal gaze nystagmus test.

Peterson v. Sykes-Peterson  A “sunset” clause in the parties’ prenuptial agreement that the agreement automatically ended at a certain date was still enforceable, even though the divorce case was filed before that date, because the case was still pending in divorce court on that date.  A prenuptial agreement with a sunset clause is not against public policy on the theory that it encourages parties to file for divorce.