John F. Scarzafava
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Personal Injury
48 Dietz Street, Suite C, Oneonta, NY 13820
About John F. Scarzafava
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
Education
- St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1975J.D.
- Honors: Who's Who in American College and Universities (Law Student Division)
- Honors: Recipient of Delta Theta Phi Scholarship Award
- Honors: Moot Court Champion
- Law Journal: St. Mary's Law Journal, Member
- St. Bonaventure University, 1972B.A.
- Honors: <i>cum laude</i>
Representative Cases
- Denny v. Ford Motor C., 87 NY2d 248 (1995); 79 F. 3d 12 (2nd Cir 1996)
- Gonzales v. Caterpillar Tractor Co., 22 Tex. SupJ. 23 (1978)
- Schicker v. General Motors Corporation, 57JUD.DIST.CT., San Antonio, TX
Classes and Seminars
- Multiple Lectures, Syracuse University College of Law 2009, 2010
- Coach, Syracuse University College of Law, Mock Trial Team 2009-2010 ( Eastern Regional Champions)
- Instructor, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, National College of Advocacy, 1979-1980, 1983-1984
- Speaker, 51st Melvin Belli Seminar, 1994
- The Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Convention, 1986
- New York State Bar Association, 1989, 1995
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1975
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1975
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1977
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1979
- New York, 1981
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1981
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1984
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1986
Articles
Published Works
- "New York Motor Vehicle Accidents", James Publishing Company, Sept. 1999
- "Auto Product Liability: Defective Door Latch", 36 Am. Jur. Trials 339, 1988
- "A Safe Place to Work: Actions under F.E.L.A.", 17 Trial Lawyers Quarterly 62, 1986
- Co-Author: "Comparative Causation in Product Liability Actions- No Need to interject Contributing Negligence," 45 Texas Bar Journal, January, 1982 (Awarded Texas Bar Foundation Journal Finalist Award for Literacy Excellence)
- "The Positional Risk Doctrine," 6 St. Mary's Law Journal
- "Contributory Negligence in a strict Liability Case: The Ghost Still Walks," 15 Trial Lawyers forum 29, 1980
- "Rights of Public Employees, The Leopagator Syndrome," ATLA National Convention Manual 1980
- "An Analysis of Products Liability Defense in the Aftermath of Hopkins," 9 St. Mary's Law Journal, 1977
- "The Supreme Court of Texas Clarifies the Applicable Defenses in Products Liability," 40 Texas Bar Journal, September 1977
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