Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

November 12, 2007

If you call it ‛spoliation“ when someone destroys or fails to preserve evidence, what do you call it when someone ignores a duty to create evidence and, by doing so, impedes the factfinding process? That was the question for Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in Ramirez v. Pride Devel. & Constr. Corp. 244 F.R.D. 162 (E.D.N.Y. 2007). Answer: Equally sanc ...
If you call it ‛spoliation“ when someone destroys or fails to preserve evidence, what do you call it when someone ignores a duty to create evidence and, by doing so, impedes the factfinding process? That was the question for Magistrate…
RICO Developments 2007 Gregory P. Joseph* Pleading a civil claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (‛RICO“), 18 U.S.C. §1964(c) has always been challenging. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S. Ct. 1955 (2007), has only exacerbated the difficulties. Courts generally im ...
RICO Developments 2007 Gregory P. Joseph* Pleading a civil claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (‛RICO“), 18 U.S.C. §1964(c) has always been challenging. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S. Ct. 1955 (2007), has only exacerbated the…

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