This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Denis R. Hurley granted an attorney disqualification motion. Judge Arthur D. Spatt dismissed claims by an LLC member as derivative, with leave to replead. Judge Jack B. Weinstein found that plaintiff, an injured seaman, had raised sufficient issues of fact to defeat summary judgment in a Jones Act case. And Judge Spatt affirmed a decision by the bankruptcy court to deny recovery of assets from the debtor’s family.

Attorney Disqualification

In Glacken v. The Incorporated Village of Freeport, 09 CV 4832 (EDNY, Oct. 6, 2010), Judge Hurley granted defendants’ motion to disqualify plaintiff’s counsel because of his prior representation of defendant Village of Freeport in a matter substantially related to the current case.

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