COHN, J. The plaintiff, Council 4, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (union), appeals to the Superior Court opposing a February 26, 2009 advisory opinion (no. 2009-3) of the defendant citizen's ethics advisory board (ethics board), a unit of the office of state ethics. 1 The challenged advisory opinion concluded that workers' compensation commission (WCC) hearing reporters were not permitted under the state ethics code, General Statutes 1-84(c), to use...
VACCHELLI, J. This case is an administrative appeal from the August 13, 2009 decision of the Connecticut Siting Council (Siting Council) granting a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need for the construction, maintenance and operation of a telecommunications facility at 199 Town Farm Road in Farmington. The facility is a cell phone tower to be disguised as a pine tree. The applicant before the Siting Council was Cellco Partnership doing business as Verizon Wireless (Cellco)....
PECK, J. The plaintiff, Brenda Ungerland, filed the two count complaint in this action on June 12, 2009. The defendants are Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc. (Morgan Stanley), a provider of securities brokerage services, and Sharon Kells, an agent of Morgan Stanley, The pertinent facts as alleged by the plaintiff or as set forth in the exhibits are as follows: Ungerland was a customer of Morgan Stanley until August, 2001, during which time she received "false and fraudulent" investment...
B. FISCHER, J. The plaintiffs, Robert Pawlowski and Joan Pawlowski, are the administrators of the estate of their son, Steven Pawlowski. In that capacity, the plaintiffs initiated this wrongful death action, which stems from Pawlowski's death on November 10, 2001. Pawlowski was struck and killed by a car after he attended a party organized by members of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity (fraternity) at 3327 Whitney Avenue, a private residence. The plaintiffs allege that Pawlowski, who was...
COHN, J. The plaintiff, Dina Jaeger, an intervenor before the defendant Connecticut Siting Council (CSC), has appealed from a March 12, 2009 final decision of the CSC that approved an application by Cellco Partnership (Cellco) for a certificate of environmental compatibility relating to a cellular tower. See General Statutes 16-50k. In its brief on the merits, Cellco raised the issue of the plaintiffs lack of aggrievement. 1 Because the plaintiff claimed to be aggrieved, but certain facts...
COSGROVE, J. The plaintiffs desire to use their undeveloped lot in the Sound View section of Old Lyme as a parking lot where members of the public could park their cars, for a fee, in the seasonally congested beach area of Old Lyme. The plaintiffs assert that the Old Lyme zoning regulations do not prohibit privately owned public use parking lots, but that such parking lots are regulated by a town ordinance that allows for parking lots so long as they meet certain requirements relating to the...
GRAHAM, J. I FACTS This case arises from the 2010 Democratic primary contest for Connecticut state comptroller between Kevin Lembo, the convention endorsed candidate, and Michael J. Jarjura, the mayor of Waterbury. The primary election is scheduled for August 10, 2010. More specifically, this case arises from the approval by the defendant statewide elections enforcement commission (SEEC) of public financing for Lembo's campaign. Jarjura's candidate committee is a plaintiff in this action,...
