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- Richard Green (Fine Paintings) v. McClendon
- New York Practice: Disclosure of Information on Social Networking Websites
- Settlement and Compromise: Recent New York Cases Invalidating Ambiguous Settlement Agreements
- Last 9/11 Wrongful Death Suit Settles
- Pay: Judge Resigns Second Department Over Wages
- Attorney, Insurance Firm Settle Suit Over Extortion Allegations
- Landlord Is Ordered to Pay Fees of Tenant Who Averted Eviction
- Bloomberg's Private Lobbying for Gay Marriage Defended by A.G.
- Civil Legal Services Hearings Resume Today
- Panel Vacates Arbitrator's Ruling on Parking Permits
- Throwing Ice Enough to Sustain Menacing Charge, Judge Says
- Personal Notes on Lawyers
- U.S. Labor Department Enlists States for Crackdown on Wage Violations
- Kasowitz Says Ex-Associate Accepted Severance and Gave Up Right to Sue
- Landau PC v. Goldstein
- Panella v. CBS Broadcasting Inc.
- Osmanzai v. Save My Home Corp.
- Michael's Electrical Supply Corp. v. Alrose Allegria LLC
- Matter of Trustco Bank
- Taillie v. Lawler
- United States v. Mastellone
- Société d'Assurance de l'Est SPRL v. Citigroup Inc.
- Thai Lao Lignite (Thailand) Co. Ltd. v. Gov't of the Lao People's Dem. Republic
- Schultz v. Tribune ND Inc.
- Dover v. Holder
- Outside Counsel: Manifest Disregard Standard Survives, Barely, in the Second Circuit
| Richard Green (Fine Paintings) v. McClendon | Top |
| Woman Loses Breach Suit Over $4.2 Million Painting; E-Mails Satisfied Statute of Frauds | |
| New York Practice: Disclosure of Information on Social Networking Websites | Top |
| Patrick M. Connors, a professor of law at Albany Law School, discusses several recent decisions where parties have sought information contained on social networking sites, but similar principles will likely apply in instances where the information sought is contained on an electronic device, or where the information sought pertains to the use of a particular device. | |
| Settlement and Compromise: Recent New York Cases Invalidating Ambiguous Settlement Agreements | Top |
| Thomas E.L. Dewey, a member of Dewey Pegno Kramarsky, writes that although older New York federal and state cases presented a number of possible resolutions, a few recent opinions have declared ambiguities in material terms of settlement agreements to be unresolvable. Even after considering the parol evidence, courts have tossed in the hat and declared the agreements to be unenforceable for failure of mutual assent. | |
| Last 9/11 Wrongful Death Suit Settles | Top |
| The family of Mark Bavis chose to settle after making public as much information as they could about security lapses on Sept. 11, 2001. | |
| Pay: Judge Resigns Second Department Over Wages | Top |
| Justice Joseph Covello voiced disappointment yesterday with a pay raise that "isn't a ton of money." | |
| Attorney, Insurance Firm Settle Suit Over Extortion Allegations | Top |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance has agreed to settle a suit accusing Michael Devereaux of trying to secure payment of legal bills by threatening to file his own suit. | |
| Landlord Is Ordered to Pay Fees of Tenant Who Averted Eviction | Top |
| N.Y. law creates an implied covenant giving tenants the same right to recover attorney's fees in evictions that leases give landlords, the Second Department has ruled. | |
| Bloomberg's Private Lobbying for Gay Marriage Defended by A.G. | Top |
| Mayor Bloomberg's lobbying technique was one of several complaints about the way in which the law was passed lodged by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. | |
| Civil Legal Services Hearings Resume Today | Top |
| The OCA today convenes a second annual round of hearings where witnesses will testify on funding for civil legal services. | |
| Panel Vacates Arbitrator's Ruling on Parking Permits | Top |
| Faulting an arbitrator for 'irrational overreach[ing],' a state appellate court vacated a decision restoring on-street parking permits for school staffers. | |
| Throwing Ice Enough to Sustain Menacing Charge, Judge Says | Top |
| The defendant allegedly hurled ice and racial epithets at the complainant while also pushing the person. | |
| Personal Notes on Lawyers | Top |
| Susan Progoff has joined Dorsey & Whitney as a partner in the trial group. Learn about other lateral moves as well. | |
| U.S. Labor Department Enlists States for Crackdown on Wage Violations | Top |
| The Labor Department is signing agreements to share information with nine states and the IRS that will help Labor officials target businesses that improperly label workers as independent contractors or as non-employees to deprive them of minimum wage and overtime pay. | |
| Kasowitz Says Ex-Associate Accepted Severance and Gave Up Right to Sue | Top |
| The firm responded to a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in August by a former first-year associate fired after eight months on the job. | |
| Landau PC v. Goldstein | Top |
| Material Issues Preclude Dismissing Contract Breach, Unjust Enrichment Claims as Barred | |
| Panella v. CBS Broadcasting Inc. | Top |
| Release That Did not Provide for Release Of Medicare Liens Defective; Judgment Vacated | |
| Osmanzai v. Save My Home Corp. | Top |
| Defendants' Allegedly Deceptive Practices Grants Homeowners Preliminary Injunction | |
| Michael's Electrical Supply Corp. v. Alrose Allegria LLC | Top |
| Summary Judgment for Goods Delivered Granted Against Company, not Principal | |
| Matter of Trustco Bank | Top |
| Exception Under 'Alco Gravure' Applied Giving Hospital Standing to Appear in Cy Pres Action | |
| Taillie v. Lawler | Top |
| Minority Shareholder Sufficiently Pleads Claims for Fraud or Misrepresentation | |
| United States v. Mastellone | Top |
| $3.2 Million in Treble Damages Awarded For 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Fraud | |
| Société d'Assurance de l'Est SPRL v. Citigroup Inc. | Top |
| Jurisdiction Lacking in Contract Breach Suit Over Acts by Citibank's Congolese Subsidiary | |
| Thai Lao Lignite (Thailand) Co. Ltd. v. Gov't of the Lao People's Dem. Republic | Top |
| Court Rejects Laos's Objections to Discovery Order in Action to Confirm Arbitral Award | |
| Schultz v. Tribune ND Inc. | Top |
| Amended Complaint Alleging FMLA, ADA Breach Barred by Res Judicata, Estoppel | |
| Dover v. Holder | Top |
| Flight Risk Alien Denied §2241 Habeas Release; Travel Documents Expected to Be Issued Soon | |
| Outside Counsel: Manifest Disregard Standard Survives, Barely, in the Second Circuit | Top |
| Geoffrey A. Mort, of counsel at Kraus & Zuchlewski, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the district courts in it and elsewhere have grappled with the question of whether "manifest disregard of the law" remains a viable ground for vacatur of an arbitral award. | |
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