Roy L Reardon

March 13, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss, among other rulings, two recent decisions involving an insured's claim for consequential damages from its insurer for failure to promptly investigate and/or properly pay valid claims and a decision dismissing claims against an employer for fraudulently inducing plaintiffs to accept employment-at-will when the employees' only damages arose from their termination.

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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June 06, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss recent decisions of the Court, in which it held that counsel may conduct an ex parte interview of an adversary's former employee, reaffirmed the high standard for punitive damages, and upheld the well-settled principle that partners are free to fix their rights by agreement and that the Court will not imply provisions of N.Y. Partnership Law into the contract to override terms to which the parties had agreed.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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January 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss current medical malpractice decisions as well as the Court's application of the assumption of risk doctrine to a round of golf.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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January 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, review recent cases involving personal liability of partners in an LLP for claims by other partners, the suppression of evidence obtained in violation of the physician-patient privilege, and disputes between rival factions of a religious community.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

13 minute read

May 19, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup column, Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, write that the majority and dissenting opinions in an action challenging local systems for providing criminal representation capped a series of interesting and thoughtful opinions generated in response to a motion to dismiss.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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October 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, discuss recent criminal decisions, as well as a number of certification requests the Court has accepted from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to address important and unresolved issues of New York law.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

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March 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, review recent decisions of interest, including the upholding of a reversal of a criminal conviction due to the prosecutor vouching for the testimony of a witness during summation, thereby making himself an unsworn witness, and another upholding the seizure of blood samples taken by a hospital in the course of treating the defendant, and introduction of the results of tests on those samples in his drunken driving trial.

By Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry

11 minute read

May 14, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By ROY L. REARDON AND MARY ELIZABETH McGARRY

11 minute read

February 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Mary Elizabeth McGarry and Roy L. Reardon, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss three of the Court's recent decisions: in Helmsley-Spear Inc. v. Fishman, the Court found that federal labor law did not preempt the state court's ability to enjoin a nuisance; in D'Onofrio v. City of New York, it addressed what constitutes adequate notice of a sidewalk defect for purposes of what has become commonly known as the "Pothole Law"; and in Matter of Rivera v. Firetog, the Court reviewed the criteria for directing a mistrial on all counts due to a jury deadlock in the absence of a declaration by the jury that it has reached a partial verdict, and the standard of review of mistrial orders.

By Mary Elizabeth McGarry and Roy L. Reardon

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