Contracts

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Case Tackles Agreements to Raise Children Under a Defined Religion: Part II

    By Alberto Yohananoff | January 11, 2018

    Alberto Yohananoff reviews, from a psychological perspective, the decision in 'Weisberger v. Weisberger', in which the Appellate Division modified a religious observance provision arising out of a Stipulation of Settlement and subsequent motion practice.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Case Tackles Agreements to Raise Children Under a Defined Religion: Part I

    By Martin E. Friedlander | January 10, 2018

    Martin E. Friedlander reviews the decision in and legal context of 'Weisberger v. Weisberger', in which the Appellate Division modified a religious observance provision arising out of a Stipulation of Settlement and subsequent motion practice.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Enforcing Preliminary Agreements Under New York Federal Law

    By Stephen L. Brodsky | January 4, 2018

    Stephen L. Brodsky writes: When will an “agreement to agree” be enforceable, and when can you require another party to negotiate with you? New York's federal courts provide a legal framework that answers both of these questions.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    Starrett City Sale Is OK'd as Judge Denies Injunction Attempt

    By Jason Grant | January 3, 2018

    Justice Saliann Scarpulla has found there was no danger of irreparable injury to the plaintiffs, a group of dissenting limited partners in Starrett City who sued claiming the sales price was too low.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Court of Appeals Revisits the Doctrine of Anticipatory Repudiation

    By David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser | January 2, 2018

    David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser write discuss 'Princes Point v. Muss Dev.', in which the Court of Appeals found that a prospective purchaser's commencement of an action seeking to rescind an amendment to a purchase agreement one month prior to the last day to close on the purchase did not constitute an unequivocal communication to the seller of the purchaser's intention not to perform. The result is a detour into an area of murky jurisprudence that may prove unsettling to the commercial bar that relies on the certainty of precedent and its application in a way that conforms to the realities of commercial practice.

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    By Scott E. Mollen | January 2, 2018

    Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law discusses “Matter of the Home of The Sages of Israel," a case that illustrates the types of disputes which are occurring throughout the country among factions of religious congregations with respect to proposed sales of congregational properties.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Commercial Division Rules Poised for Additional Business-Oriented Changes

    By Christopher Harris, Jonathan Lippman, Gregory Mortenson and Nicole Valco | December 19, 2017

    Christopher Harris, Jonathan Lippman, Gregory Mortenson and Nicole Valco provide an overview of the recent and potential additional rule changes in the Commercial Division, how they complement previous changes, and how they further the Commercial Division's aim of providing an attractive and hospitable forum for the fair and timely resolution of complicated commercial disputes from around the globe.

  • The Recorder | News

    Judge Alex Kozinski, Apologizing Amid Harassment Claims, Retires Immediately

    By Marcia Coyle | December 18, 2017

    Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, beset by allegations of sexual misconduct, on Monday announced his retirement effective immediately.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    New NYC Ordinance Limits Inquiry Into Prospective Employee's 'Salary History'

    By Joseph E. Bachelder III | December 14, 2017

    In his Executive Compensation column, Joseph E. Bachelder III writes: Prospective employers subject to N.Y.C. Admin. Code §8-107, Subdiv. 25 should take a number of steps to comply with the new rule making it unlawful to inquire about the salary history of an applicant for employment or to rely on the salary history of an applicant in determining the salary, benefits or other compensation.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    How Can a Successor Licensee Benefit From Ambiguous Terms in an Existing License?

    By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown | December 11, 2017

    Technology Law columnists Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss a recent decision which held that the ambiguous term of a license meant that the licensee could not prevent the licensor from negotiating and executing a term sheet with a successor licensee, during the final year of the license.

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