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

Veterans Affairs Department Subject to Inherent Power Sanction for Extrajudicial Conduct (Application of Concededly Invalid Rule) Contrary to Representations to Federal Circuit — Creative Alternative to Sanction Offered

Nat’l Org. of Veterans Advocates, Inc. v. Sec’y of Veterans Affairs, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5541 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21, 2013): The National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, Inc. (NOVA) petitioned us to review a rule promulgated by the Department of…
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Spoliation: Failure of Plaintiff’s Experts to Preserve Evidence before Defendant Knew of Claim Justifies Permissive Adverse Inference Instruction — Proper to Exclude Evidence Product Manufactured in China — No Reason to Sequester Experts

Indemnity Ins. Co. of N. Am. v. Electrolux Home Prods., Inc., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 6609 (3d Cir. April 2, 2013): Appellant, Indemnity Insurance Company of North America (“Indemnity”), as subrogee of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District (“School District”), brought…
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Expert Opinion on Damages — Good Quotes — Forum State Rule Awarding Attorneys’ Fees to Prevailing Party Applies in Federal Court — Does Such a Forum State Rule Trump Contrary State Law Governing Decision? It Depends

Alaska Rent-a-Car, Inc. v. Avis Budget Group, Inc., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 4566 (9th Cir. Mar. 9, 2013): Several state law questions arise in this appeal, and [two] federal law questions, whether expert testimony should have been excluded under Daubert…
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Sanctions: Dismissal to Bar Refiling in State Court of Frivolous Claim Filed in Federal Court Lacking Jurisdiction — Absent Jurisdiction over Complaint, Counterclaim Must State Federal Jurisdiction — Sovereign Citizens’ Movement & Admiralty

El v. AmeriCredit Financial Servs., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5579 (7th Cir. Mar. 20, 2013): The plaintiff bought a used pickup truck in 2011 for $28,000 and financed the purchase by means of a six-year installment contract that specified an…
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Party Cannot Seek Expert Fees for Deposition Time of Expert Who Testifies for Free — Eight Factor Test to Determine Whether Expert Fee Request Is Reasonable — Inherent Power Sanctions for Invoice for Free Expert

Eastcott v. Hasselblad A/S, 892 F. Supp. 2d 587 (S.D.N.Y. 2012) (Rakoff, J.): Contrary to the apparent view of plaintiff and his counsel, a legal forum is not the place to play a shell game. The opportunity for such shenanigans…
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FRAP 38 and Pro Se Litigants — Observations, Not Sanctions, For Non-Existent Quotations

Rule 37(c)(1) Exclusion Sanction: Under R&R Sails, A Discovery Sanction Is Not Claim Dispositive Just Because It Makes It “Much More Difficult, Perhaps Almost Impossible” For A Party To Proceed With Its Claim Or Argument — The Sanction Must Be Fatal — Only Then Is Proof of Willfulness, Fault Or Bad Faith Required — To The Extent The Imposition Of Sanctions Turns On The Resolution Of An Issue Of Law, Review Is De Novo

Supreme Court: Party Moving to Set Aside Void Judgment Under Rule 60(b)(4) Must Do So Within A Reasonable Time Per Rule 60(c)(1)

Supreme Court: Erie/Rule 8/Rule 11: Fed. R. Civ. P. 8 Conflicts with and Overrides Delaware’s Affidavit of Merit in Medical Malpractice Actions — A Valid Rule of Civil Procedure Displaces Contrary State Law Even If The State Law Is Substantive — Rule 11’s Proviso That “[U]nless A Rule Or Statute Specifical States Otherwise, A Pleading Need Not Be Verified Or Accompanied By An Affidavit” Refers to Rules Or Statutes Requiring Represented Parties To Verify Pleading Or Sign Affidavits — It Has Nothing To Do With Affidavits From Third Parties — Good Quote: Drawing A Negative Inference from Text Is Sometimes the Best Way To Understand It

RICO Statute of Limitations — Storm Warnings, Not Thunder and Lightning (Good Quote)

Rule 37 Discovery Sanctions: Ninth Circuit’s Five-Factor Test for Gauging Appropriateness of Dismissal — The Limited Utility of Rule 12(f) Motions to Strike

RICO: Employer Suffered Harm to Business or Property When Kickbacks Paid to Employees in Real Estate Transactions Done for Employer — Expert Testimony Sufficient to Prove Harm — Proof That Employer Paid Above-Market Prices Not Essential — Non-Disclosure of Certain Damages in Initial Disclosures Cured by Expert Report, Which Also Rendered Initial Non-Disclosure Harmless

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

Inherent 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?

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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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