During a U.S. Open tennis tournament, Scott Johnson was working as a culinary supervisor in one of the kitchen areas when he plugged his cell phone charger into an outlet and suffered an electric shock.
When he later sued the City of New York, the United States Tennis Association, the USTA National Tennis Center, J.H. Mack, LLC (the contractor responsible for the building's construction), and ADCO Electrical Corp. (the subcontractor responsible for the electrical system's installation), the defendants all sought, and were granted, dismissal of the case by the Queens County Supreme Court.
While the Appellate Division, Second Department, thought the bulk of the underlying determination was correct, because ADCO allegedly failed to install "ground fault circuit interrupters," that ended up short-circuiting that company's attempt to be let out of the case. (The AD2 felt the claimed omission raised a "triable issue of fact" as to ADCO's purported negligence.)
Bet they're all juiced up now.
To view a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Johnson v. City of New York