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Untitled matter Jurisdiction N.Y. · 2d Cir.
Fact pattern

A commercial landlord hired a fire-alarm company under a service agreement containing an exculpatory clause capping the company's liability at the monthly fee. The company agreed to inspect the alarm panel quarterly but performed no inspection for nine months. When a fire broke out, the panel never transmitted a signal and the building was a total loss.

Limitation-of-liability clause Contractual duty unperformed Possible gross negligence
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Controlling & persuasive authority14 results
Kalisch-Jarcho v. City of N.Y. match 96

Exculpation can't bar a claim for gross negligence

A party may not contractually insulate itself from its own grossly negligent conduct — your skipped-inspection facts put this squarely on point.

surfaced from "performed no inspection for nine months"
Sommer v. Federal Signal Corp. match 91

Alarm company's prolonged failure can rise to gross negligence

Directly addresses an alarm provider whose system fails after a sustained lapse in duty.

surfaced from "panel never transmitted a signal"
Abacus Fed. Sav. v. ADT match 83

Limitation clause enforced absent gross negligence

The authority your opponent will lean on — flagged as adverse.

surfaced from "capping the company's liability"
Citation map
● Kalisch-Jarcho — controlling node
○ 4 cases citing, distinguishing
or narrowing the rule
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It catches the facts that decide cases — an unperformed duty, a limitation clause, a nine-month lapse — and ties each result to the legal element it speaks to.

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Why Starry

Keyword search finds documents. Starry finds the argument.

The old way
  • Boolean strings you rebuild for every matter, hoping you guessed the right terms of art.
  • Hundreds of hits ranked by frequency, not by whether they actually answer the question.
  • Adverse authority you only find when the other side cites it back at you.
  • Hours of reading to confirm a case still stands for what the headnote claims.
With Starry
  • Ask the legal question once, in plain English. Starry handles the translation.
  • Results ranked by how directly each case resolves your issue — controlling first.
  • The cases against you, surfaced up front — so the counterargument is never a surprise.
  • Treatment and citation history mapped at a glance, every claim traceable to source.
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