million to a whistleblower who came forward with information that led to a successful SEC enforcement action To date, the SEC has recovered $904 million from enforcement actions resulting from whistleblower tips whistleblower program— i.e. , July 21, 2010, when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank Act”) was signed into law—and the effective date of the Commission’s whistleblower the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, and … it would have been counter-productive and unreasonable to

to possess and plead possession of a valid license as required by relevant laws may not commence an action Consistent with the case law, CPLR § 3015(e) requires that if a “plaintiff’s cause of action against The plaintiff subcontractor commenced the action after the defendant general contractor defaulted in to possess and plead possession of a valid license as required by relevant laws may not commence an action The Crippen plaintiff commenced the action alleging that, among other things, defendants violated GBL

In the prior Blog article GET RID OF A STALE MORTGAGE BY BRINGING AN ACTION UNDER RPAPL 1501(4) , we discussed provisions of New York’s Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law that permit a mortgagor Bank of New York Mellon , an action brought under RPL §329.  Bank of New York (the “Foreclosure Action”).  After the decision in the Foreclosure Action, the Silverbergs commenced the subject action “to cancel

doing so, the Court considered the four nonexclusive factors set forth in Section 107 of the Copyright Act

Chief among these is the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and the state analogues. Whistleblower Protection for Contractor and Grantee Employees Act: On December 5, the Senate passed Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016: On December 10, the Senate passed H.R. 6450 , the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016. “For these reasons, the act is an important milestone for good government.

After recognizing that “no right of action can spring out of an illegal contract,” the Second Department created for the purpose of improper tax avoidance the contract was illegal, preclud any right of action The Linchitz plaintiff commenced action to recover the balance due on the note and for costs and attorney Supreme court denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on its first and second causes of action ” supreme court awarded defendant summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s first and second cause of action

“It is well settled that a cause of action for fraud does not arise, where the only fraud alleged relates contract claim because the fraud claim was based on the same facts that underlie the contract cause of action As a result, Bryan sued Slothower and Battery and asserted, among other causes of action against them that “the complaint adequately alleges that defendants made specific representations concerning the actions regarding the payment of settlement funds was not collateral to the Settlement Agreement but was an actual

American Express Fin. Advisors, Inc. , 6 N.Y.3d 242, 247 (2006), quoting Brooke Group Ltd. v. Audio Active Ltd. , 494 F.3d 378, 383, 386 (2d Cir. 2007). Maslowski eventually filed an action in Minnesota challenging the validity of the agreement. Shortly thereafter, Holdings filed the action in New York alleging, among other things, that Maslowski and not in the interests of justice because Maslowski had no contacts with New York: The New York action

Amur’s disclosure of the documents to the Company - which is represented by independent counsel in the action In that regard, the Court explained that “it makes sense that co-litigants in an active litigation who circumstance, it made sense to shield privileged, pre-litigation communications by co-litigants in an active

personal delivery to him … within or without the state, who does not appear may be allowed to defend the action In Acqua Capital, LLC v. 510 West Boston Post Road, LLC , an action to foreclose a tax lien, the Acqua After the defendant failed to appear in the action, the Dwyer court entered judgment against it for notice of the action in time to defend for the purpose of CPLR 317.”  Under these circumstances, the defendant did not demonstrate lack of actual notice of the action.

Yu (“Patrick”), commenced the action against his siblings, Raymond Yu (“Raymond”) and Catherine Yu (“ Among the actions alleged to have been taken against Patrick are: 1) amendment of the operating agreements Patrick alleged that no explanation was given as to why that demand was made at that time, when no action Patrick alleged that, as a result of his siblings’ actions, the stated purpose of Guard Hill and 33 East is not sufficient to support a cause of action that his family has abandoned the purpose of the LLCs

last week in August, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) filed a number of actions Today’s installment of SEC Enforcement News looks at two of the actions/proceedings filed by the Commission I accept full responsibility for my actions. myself, I am committed to repaying all of the funds gained illegally and accept the consequences of my actions According to the SEC, this was “the first time the SEC has filed an enforcement action involving rating