Roy L Reardon

June 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In their Court of Appeals Roundup column, Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, write that havoc would have ensued had the Court of Appeals upheld challenges to the subject matter jurisdiction of the Integrated Domestic Violence parts of the Supreme Courts over misdemeanors charged in an information, or the Bronx Criminal Division of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, over cases commenced in New York City Criminal Court.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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May 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss recent decisions that held the tort of conversion applicable to electronic data, clarified the limits on the "economic interest" defense to an action for tortious interference with a contract and addressed the causation element of a legal malpractice cause of action.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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April 09, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By ROY L. REARDON AND MARY ELIZABETH McGARRY

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April 08, 2004 | New York Law Journal

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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May 18, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss: a decision arising out of the sale of a business in which the Court of Appeals provided some guidance on what constitutes improper solicitation by the seller of its former clients; a decision resolving six cases in which the sentencing court failed to impose post-release supervision during the initial sentencing hearing; and the Court's take on whether the New York City Rent Guidelines Board has the authority to promulgate orders allowing different rent increases for apartments based upon whether there had been a recent vacancy.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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May 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, write that juries were the subject of two of the cases that they discuss this month. In the first, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court's refusal to poll a civil jury upon request is never harmless, and in the other, the Court reversed a conviction due to the imbalanced nature of the improvised deadlock charge given by a trial judge whose similar instruction in another case also resulted in reversal of a conviction.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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April 17, 2002 | New York Law Journal

T his month we discuss another opinion by the Court of Appeals in the dispute between Bluebird Partners LP, purchaser of bonds issued by Continental Airlines prior to its bankruptcy, and the bond trustees. The opinion resolved one issue relating to the financially significant question of whether causes of action arising out of bonds are transferred with the bonds when they are sold or remain with transferor, finding that the causes of action may be asserted by the transferee pursuant to the General Obligati

By Roy L. Reardon And Mary Elizabeth Mcgarry

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