Suevon Lee

October 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A Manhattan Commercial Division judge has awarded damages and attorney fees—plus a 25 percent share of a company valued at nearly $9 million—to a minority shareholder who was squeezed out of a family-run textile business.

By Suevon Lee

7 minute read

October 10, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A Manhattan Commercial Division judge has awarded damages and attorney fees—plus a 25 percent share of a company valued at nearly $9 million—to a minority shareholder who was squeezed out of a family-run textile business.

By Suevon Lee

7 minute read

October 07, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A proposed rule for the statewide Commercial Division would require parties deadlocked in a discovery dispute to first outline the nature of their disagreement in letter form and request a phone conference with the court, before expecting any return on a motion.

By Suevon Lee

4 minute read

September 29, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

Universal Music Group is moving for summary judgment on its claims in a four-year-old case that raises questions about the reach of a federal statute, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to songs recorded prior to Feb. 15, 1972, in the context of cases brought under New York common law.

By Suevon Lee

6 minute read

September 25, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A Singapore financial company can advance with fraud claims against Morgan Stanley for having structured and sold credit-linked notes backed by risky collateral that were allegedly designed to profit the bank instead of investors, a Manhattan judge has held.

By Suevon Lee

4 minute read

September 24, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

The founders of a designer women's footwear line are entitled to more than $1.8 million in back pay after a Manhattan state judge found they were fired without cause by a manufacturer who purchased a majority stake in their business eight years ago.

By Suevon Lee

4 minute read

September 22, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

Global spirits distributor Diageo and New York not-for-profit society The Explorers Club announced a settlement Friday that resolves litigation in New York's Commercial Division over the company's use of the club's name in a Johnnie Walker whiskey collection.

By Suevon Lee

2 minute read

September 22, 2014 | New York Law Journal

That the fee recommendation has prompted a new round of legal wrangling is emblematic of a case in which the plaintiff retained five separate firms, including Blank Rome and Quinn Emanuel, appealed every lower court ruling and moved several times to reargue appellate decisions.

By Suevon Lee

5 minute read

September 19, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A divided panel of the Appellate Division, First Department Thursday reversed a lower court's denial of a motion to compel disclosure of additional source code in a computer software trade secrets dispute that tests the limits of discovery.

By Suevon Lee

5 minute read

September 18, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

The firm Herrick, Feinstein is entitled to $1 million in fees and costs for defending a developer in a contract dispute over a Staten Island waterfront parcel, a case that spanned five years and involved numerous appeals, a New York County special referee concluded late last month.

By Suevon Lee

5 minute read