Scott M Himes

March 30, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Scott M. Himes, a member of Stillman & Friedman, writes that although using it for this purpose raises unsettled issues, New York's pre-action disclosure statute provides a well-suited mechanism for unmasking an electronic speaker's identity, offering broader pre-action discovery than comparable federal procedure.

By Scott M. Himes

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October 31, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Scott M. Himes, a member of Stillman & Friedman, writes: Although Janus' "ultimate authority" rule seemingly is another bright-line approach in securities law, applying it might not be so easy. Already the lower courts have differed on whether Janus applies to corporate insiders.

By Scott M. Himes

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September 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his Securities Litigation column, Scott M. Himes, a member of Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, writes that though it is now more than a decade since Congress imposed stricter requirements on securities fraud actions in the federal courts, tension remains between those requirements and plaintiffs' efforts to sidestep them by bringing securities-related claims in the state courts, as a recent Second Circuit decision illustrates.

By Scott M. Himes

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