By: Jeffrey M. Haber Most litigants think that financial documents, such as tax returns, are confidential. The same is true with regard to trade secrets and other proprietary business information. …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber In 1990, Congress created the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program (“EB-5 Program”) to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger On July 12, 2023, the Appellate Division, Second Department, in U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Rahman, addressed an issue that has been confusing lawyers for quite …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber Under New York law, there are two methods by which a person can domesticate a foreign judgment – i.e., a judgment obtained outside the State of …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber On October 8, 1971, ABC aired an episode of The Brady Bunch, titled “The Wheeler-Dealer”. In the episode, Greg gets his driver’s license and wants to …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger Folks sign contracts of all types that purport to contain limitations of liability; but are they enforceable. In many cases, the answer is “yes”. “In the …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber The voluntary payment doctrine bars recovery of payments voluntarily made with full knowledge of the facts, and in the absence of fraud or material mistake of …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber Under the law, the perpetration of a fraud can be the great equalizer between winning and losing a case. For example, a court may relieve a …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger Because there have been a number of appellate decisions interpreting RPAPL 1304, this Blog has written frequently on that topic. See, e.g., [here], [here], [here], [here], …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber On many occasions, we have written about Ponzi schemes that have been the subject of enforcement actions brought by, and/or settlements with, the Securities and Exchange …
