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

While Failure to Object to Magistrate Judge’s Report within 14 Days Waives Review of That Decision If the Report Explicitly So States (with Citations), the Waiver Rule Is Non-Jurisdictional and May Be Excused

Zaretsky v. Maxi Aids, Inc., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 14312 (2d Cir. July 16, 2013): Appellants Feige Zaretsky and Aaron Berlin, pro se, appeal from a final judgment dismissing their amended complaint pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16(f),…
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When Summary Judgment Allowed on Claims Requiring Proof of Intent — RICO Enterprise of Affiliated and Unaffiliated Entities and Employees Upheld — Prejudgment Interest Plus Punitive Damages Permitted, and at Higher State Rate — Good Quotes

In re ClassicStar Mare Lease Litig., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 14518 (6th Cir. July 18, 2013): Defendants argue that summary judgment was inappropriate because there are disputed issues of fact as to whether they intended to defraud Plaintiffs through the…
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Circuit Split: Can Defendant Moot Class Action by Offering Full Individual Relief before Certification Motion Filed? — Impact of Supreme Court’s 2013 Genesis Decision — “Inherently Transitory” Rationale Inapt

Keim v. ADF Midatlantic, LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98373 (S.D. Fla. July 12, 2013): “To allow a case, not certified as a class action and with no motion for class certification even pending, to continue in federal court when…
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RICO — Enterprise Consisting of Corporate President, His Assistant and His Off-the-Books Wholly-Owned Entity Satisfies Distinctiveness Requirement of § 1962(c) Where All 3 Are Also Defendants

Mega Concrete, Inc. v. Smith, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98660 (E.D. Pa. July 15, 2013): This lawsuit involves allegations that two former employees of the plaintiff construction companies, defendants Michael Smith and Kimberly Lawson, conspired and collaborated with others to…
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Standards for Dismissal under Rules 37 and 41(b) — Rule 37 Factors Not Exhaustive — Each Need Not Be Satisfied If Order Is “Just” — Pro Se Must Be Warned before Sanction of Dismissal Imposed — 41(b) Dismissal May Be Sua Sponte

Manigaulte v. C.W. Post of Long Island Univ., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 14096 (2d Cir. July 12, 2013): While “dismissal with prejudice is a harsh remedy to be used only in extreme situations, and then only when a court finds…
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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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