Under Section 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), a party can vacate or modify an arbitral award under four narrow circumstances: “(1) where the award was procured by corruption, …
On June 26, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that the three-year statute of repose in Section 13 of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities …
On June 27, 2017, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider whether state courts retain concurrent jurisdiction over lawsuits brought under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “’33 Act” …
On Monday, June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the anti-retaliation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank …
As noted in a prior Blog post (here), the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, at least the first phase of the rule, has gone into effect, though its future remains uncertain. …
Last year, this Blog wrote about a qui tam action that was dismissed by the Sixth Circuit because of the application of the public disclosure bar (here). In United States …
On June 23, 2017, President Trump signed legislation that is intended to protect whistleblowers who report problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), and improve employee accountability for misbehavior …
Since the early 1900s, tortious interference with contractual relations has been a viable cause of action in New York. E.g., S.C. Posner Co. v. Jackson, 223 N.Y. 325, 332 (1918); …
Jimmy Smith is widely considered to have been one of the most influential and accomplished jazz musicians of his time, if not in jazz history. Smith, who died in 2005, …
The New York Statute of Frauds provides that “[a] contract for the . . . the sale, of any real property, or an interest therein, is void unless the contract …
