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When I was in Portland, I sprained my ankle.
Topic Started: May 17 2015, 03:12 PM (400 Views)
George K
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I should have tried to cash in...

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Al Sharpton’s eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court rec­ords show.

Dominique Sharpton, 28, says she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over uneven pavement at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway downtown last year, according to a lawsuit.

Currently on vacation in Bali, the membership director for her gadfly dad’s National Action Network claims she “still suffers and will continue to suffer for some time physical pain and bodily injuries,” according to the suit filed against the city departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection.

“I sprained my ankle real bad lol,” she wrote in a post to Instagram after the Oct. 2 fall.

She was pictured in a walking boot in the weeks following the tumble, but by December, Dominique was good to go for NAN’s Justice for All march in Washington, DC, and for a New Year’s Eve jaunt to Miami Beach.

And despite claiming “permanent physical pain” in a breathless notice of claim, there are social-media shots of her in high heels, and another of her climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree.
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Dominique Sharpton claims she fell in a crosswalk, which would make hers a “defective roadway” claim. The city received 774 such claims in the 2014 fiscal year alone.

She was left with “internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs, the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish,” she alleges.

The younger Sharpton is seeking the damages for “loss of quality of life, future pain and suffering, future medical bills, [and] future diminution of income,” according to court papers.

Sharpton’s lawyer, John Elefterakis, said she had “multiple ligament and tendon tears” and “has not had any involvement in selecting a figure that would be fair and adequate compensation for her pain and suffering. The number was selected by my firm and is meant as a safeguard for Ms. Sharpton in a worst-case scenario.”
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That pavement feature was designed to trap black people.

Srsly.
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George K
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Appears to be working...

An acquaintance of mine stepped off a taxi and sprained (or perhaps broke) her ankle on a slushy sidewalk.

She sued.

And lost.
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Illinois courts have developed the general principle that a municipality owes no duty of care to a pedestrian who walks in or crosses a public roadway outside a crosswalk. ( Curatola v. Village of Niles (1993), 154 Ill. 2d 201, 208, 608 N.E.2d 882, 181 Ill. Dec. 631.) The rationale for these decisions is a restatement of the obvious: the streets are for the use of vehicles, not pedestrians, except under certain limited circumstances. Curatola, 154 Ill. 2d at 210; Wojdyla v. City of Park Ridge (1992), 148 Ill. 2d 417, 592 N.E.2d 1098, 170 Ill. Dec. 418.
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Leaf doesn't fall far from the tree.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
May 17 2015, 03:39 PM
Leaf doesn't fall far from the tree.
Particularly when the tree is rotten.
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She was left with “internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs, the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish,” she alleges.

Amazing.
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Reading these articles causes me unimaginable mental anguish. Get your checkbooks ready, GK.
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George K
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Don't delete your Instagram photos, Dominique

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City lawyers warned Dominique Sharpton not to delete Instagram photos like this one atop an Indonesian mountain — where she trekked while claiming in a lawsuit that she has “permanent” ­injuries.
The city Law Department sent Rev. Al’s daughter a letter telling her to preserve all of the damning evidence that she posted on her ­social-media accounts.

The warning comes after The Post revealed that Dominique Sharpton has been globe-trotting despite her May 7 suit that says she will never fully recover from a sprained ankle she suffered on an uneven Soho street.

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“The purpose of this letter is to demand that plaintiff preserve any photographs, documents, communications and any other information, both tangible and electronically stored, potentially relevant to her alleged trip and fall on Dec. 23, 2014,” de Blasio administration lawyer Michele Fox wrote in a May 20 letter filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“This demand should be construed broadly to encompass materials related to plaintiff’s health, mobility, activity or physical limitations after the alleged incident.”

It gives a clear directive that Sharpton had better not dump documents and photos to save her case.
The city wants to make sure the evidence is safe in all possible forms, directing Sharpton not to touch her “cameras (digital and non-digital) e-mails, text messages, cellular phones, tablets and any other device.”
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