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AUSTER v. NORWALK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH--DISSENT

NORCOTT, J., dissenting. Virginia Auster, the plaintiff in this case, has been bitten thrice. First, on the evening of July 27, 2000, by Shadow, a mixed breed pit bull owned by the defendant Pedro Salinas, the sexton for the named defendant, Norwalk United Methodist Church,1 while she attended a meeting of a charitable organization held at the defendant's building. She next was bitten by the Appellate Court's judgment disturbing the trial court's discretionary decision not to set aside the jury's verdict holding the defendant strictly liable to the plaintiff pursuant to the dog bite statute, General Statutes

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