New York Attorneys JHA handles range the gamut of complex financial and commercial litigation and arbitration, including securities, RICO, corporate and contract disputes, credit default swaps, derivatives, and class, mass, and derivative actions. The firm also represents law firms in major disputes.

Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

New York Attorneys JHA handles range the gamut of complex financial and commercial litigation and arbitration, including securities, RICO, corporate and contract disputes, credit default swaps, derivatives, and class, mass, and derivative actions. The firm also represents law firms in major disputes.
Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Joseph Hage Aaronson

Are Attorneys’ Fees Includable in a Bond Issued under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 7? — Circuit Split — Potential Fed.R.App.P. 38 Sanctions for Frivolous Appeal Are Not Includable within Bond

Rossi v. Proctor & Gamble Co., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34180 (D.N.J. Mar. 17, 2014): 1.  Attorneys' Fees Circuits are split on the question of whether or not to include attorneys' fees in a bond issued under Federal Rule of …
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FRAP 38 Sanctions — Not Just for Frivolousness But Also for “Blatant Misrepresentations” — Good Quotes: (1) Weak, “Almost Hopeless” ≠ Frivolous, (2) Sleeping on One’s Rights and (3) Pointlessness of Epithets in Court Filings

Candelario-Del-Moral v. UBS Fin’l Servs. Inc. (In re Efron), 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 5322 (1st Cir. Mar. 21, 2014): For over four centuries, persons learned in the law have known that, when litigation is in prospect, vigilance is good and…
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Circumstantial Authentication of Texts and Emails (Rule 901(b)(4))—Indiana Adopts Tienda / Parker Approach—For Voice ID (R. 901(b)(5)), Only “Minimal Familiarity” Required—All Decided under 104(a)—Strictures of R. 701 Inapt

Pavlovich v. State, 2014 Ind. App. LEXIS 127 (Ind. Ct. App. Mar. 28, 2014): The second issue is whether the trial court erroneously admitted the text and email communications between Pugh and Detective Odier and the  [*12] 2662 number and…
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Printout Offered to Show What Appears on Website ≠ Hearsay — 403 Unfair Prejudice Prong “Unnecessary and Useless” in Bench Trial — Internet Search Results or Snippets without Context May Be of Minimal Relevance — Good Quotes

Invisible Fences, Inc. v. Fido’s Fences, Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16663 (E.D. Tenn. Feb. 11, 2014): The Court finds the following from Foreword Magazine, Inc. v. OverDrive, Inc., No. 1:10-cv-1144, 2011 WL 5169384, at *4 (W.D. Mich. Oct. 31,…
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Spoliation: Dismissal Under Rule 37(e)(2) and Monetary Sanctions Under Rule 37(e)(1), Implicitly Reading The “Or” Between 37(e)(1) and 37(e)(2) As Conjunctive, Not Disjunctive — Clear Error Standard of Review for District Court’s Intent (= Bad Faith) Finding under 37(e)(2)(C) — Additional Monetary Sanctions Imposed on Claimants under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and Rule 37(a)(5) — No Right to Jury Determination of Intent under Rule 37(e)(2) — “Substantially Justified” in Rule 37(a)(5) Has Same Meaning As In Equal Access to Justice Act and Thus Rule 11 — Meaning of “Unreasonable and Vexatious” in 7th Circuit

nherent Power Sanction of Dismissal — Preponderance of the Evidence Burden of Proof, Not Clear and Convincing Evidence (7th Circuit)

§ 1927 Sanctions — Must A Lawyer Who Unreasonably and Vexatiously Multiplies Federal Court Proceedings Be Acting “As An Attorney” When Committing the Misconduct To Be Subject to Sanction under § 1927?

Rule 37 Sanctions — Unfamiliarity With Litigation Process Does Not Excuse Intentional Disregard of Court Order — Also Affirming Rule 26(g) Sanctions on Clients and Counsel for False Representations That All Responsive Documents Had Been Produced

Supreme Court: Notice of Appeal Filed After The Original Deadline But Before Reopening by The District Court Is Timely — It Relates Forward to The Date of The Order Making The Appeal Possible — Second Notice of Appeal After Reopening Unnecessary

Rule 37 Default Judgment: Second Circuit’s Four-Factor Test for Imposing Defaults and Three-Factor Test for Lifting Them

Rule 37 Default Judgment — Tenth Circuit Multifactor Test Is Not Exhaustive But a Non-Exclusive List of “Sometimes-Helpful Criteria Or Guide Posts”— Appeal from Preliminary Injunction Mooted by Entry of Permanent Injunction — Difficulty in Collecting Damages Award May Equal Irreparable Injury — A Monetary Award For Past Conduct Does Not Preclude A Permanent Injunction Against Similar Wrongful Conduct Likely To Occur In The Future

RICO: Cover-Up Within Limitations Period of Untimely RICO Violation “Was Merely A Continuation” Of The Original Injury And Could Not Be Used “As A ‘Bootstrap’ To Salvage [The] Time-Barred Claims–Declining to Apply Pinkerton Doctrine to Civil RICO Claims

Inherent Power — Circumstantial Evidence — Fact That Bad Faith May Be Shown by Establishing That Conduct Was So Egregious It Was Necessarily Committed in Bad Faith Does Not Mean That Bad Faith Must Be The Sole Explanation for The Bad Conduct

RICO Causation: Testing Labs’ Misstatements As to Alcohol Tests’ Efficacy Not Communicated to Plaintiffs’ Employers Did Not Cause Plaintiffs’ Professional Harm

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New York Attorneys JHA handles range the gamut of complex financial and commercial litigation and arbitration, including securities, RICO, corporate and contract disputes, credit default swaps, derivatives, and class, mass, and derivative actions. The firm also represents law firms in major disputes.
New York Attorneys JHA handles range the gamut of complex financial and commercial litigation and arbitration, including securities, RICO, corporate and contract disputes, credit default swaps, derivatives, and class, mass, and derivative actions. The firm also represents law firms in major disputes.

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