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The prevailing plaintiff in a contract dispute cannot invoke an indemnification clause to recover more than $700,000 in attorney’s fees under an “exacting” test set by the New York Court of Appeals in 1989, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, ruled Tuesday.

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