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- Court Holds Text Message Inadmissible Evidence to Support Breach of Contract Claim
“Whether or not a writing is ambiguous is a question of law to be resolved by the courts.”
- Insurance Carrier Not Required to Indemnify Insured for Claimed Business Income Losses Says the Second Department
to equivocally resolve the ambiguity in a policy, interpretation of the policy remains a question of law
- Court Finds Minority Shareholder Lacks Standing to Seek Deadlock Dissolution Under the BCL
Yet, despite the fact that the New York Limited Liability Company Law (“LLCL”) requires members of an Just as LLCL § 702 offers dissolution to a member of an LLC, Business Corporation Law (“BCL”) §§ 1104 Matter of Klein Law Group, P.C. , 134 A.D.3d 450 (1st Dept. (2015) (quoting Matter of the Dissolution
- The Doctrine Of “Corporation By Estoppel” Is Alive And Well In New York
of limited partnership ... shall be delivered to the department of state”) of New York’s Partnership Law
- Change of Venue Procedures
CPLR 503 (a) provides that: Except where otherwise prescribed by law, the place of trial shall be in Mystic Tank Lines Corp. , 51 A.D.3d 908 (2 nd Dep’t 2008), the Court affirmed the denial of a motion
- Biotech Company And Former Executives Settle Charges Of Securities And Accounting Fraud
Law who served as Osiris’ vice president of finance and principal accounting officer and, subsequently by Osiris’ corporate culture, which was set and communicated by Debrabandere and embraced by Jacoby, Law the Company settled the charges with the SEC, the litigation continues against Debrabandere, Jacoby, Law believe that the Enforcement Division will stop investigating violations of the federal securities laws The federal securities laws are, after all, intended to protect investors.
- Corporate Officer Dismissed from Fraud Action Because the Plaintiffs Could Not Pierce the Corporate Veil
Piercing the Corporate Veil in New York As a general matter, New York law allows business owners the Waters , 890 F.2d 594, 601 (2d Cir. 1989) (applying New York law)). Plaintiffs Lawrence J.
- Puffery and the Misstatement That Wasn’t
the right,’ or the ‘best’ nonactionable puffery” under the Lanham Act and New York General Business Law
- Wells Fargo Faces Additional Legal Woes
The bank also faces numerous single plaintiff Sarbanes-Oxley Act complaints and state law whistleblower engaging in the following protected activity: Reporting - Making a complaint about an alleged violation of law Many violations of the law go unreported because people who know about them are afraid of being disciplined These laws are intended to encourage individuals to come forward with information about violations of law.
- Derivative Standing and Personal Animus: How Much Acrimony is Enough?
A shareholder’s derivative action is a lawsuit “brought in the right of a … corporation to procure a Akers , 88 N.Y.2d 189, 193 (1996) (quoting Business Corporation Law § 626 (a)).
- Unconscionable Attorneys’ Fees Provisions
The determination of whether a provision is “an unenforceable penalty is a question of law, giving due
- Court Holds Liquidated Damages Clause to be an Unenforceable Penalty
contractual provision is “an enforceable liquidation of damages or an unenforceable penalty is a question of law While such provisions are generally enforceable under New York law, New York courts will nullify them
