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New York Law Journal: Decisions of Interest March 18, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

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U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT
Employment
ERISA Administrator Arbitrarily Interpreted Disability Retirement Pension Requirement
Pepe, plaintiff-appellant v. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers'-Publishers' Pension Fund, defendants-appellees

NEW YORK COUNTY
Contracts
Claims Against Seller Dismissed; Disclaimers In Contract Expressly State Property Sold 'As Is'
Apthorp Associates LLC v. 390 West End Associates LLC

NEW YORK COUNTY
Civil Practice
Court Rejects Motion to Compel Disclosure Concluding No 'Ample Need' Is Presented
Empire State Building Co. LLC v. 350 Fifth Ave. Corp.

KINGS COUNTY
Legal Profession
Free With Registration: Outgoing Counsel Entitled to Payment For Copying Former Client's File
Moore v. Ackerman

RICHMOND COUNTY
Business Law
Store's Contract Differs From GBL §349 Constituting Deceptive Business Practices
Miuccio v. Puppy City Inc.

NASSAU COUNTY
Business Law
Issue of Fact Exist of Whether Customer List 'Trade Secret'; Preliminary Injunction Denied
Koenigsberg v. Silber Investment Properties Ltd.

ULSTER COUNTY
Civil Practice
Court Grants Attorney's Motion to Quash Subpoena in AG's Probe of State Pension Abuse
Matter of Hill v. Cuomo

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT
Criminal Practice
Government's Bid for Panel Rehearing of Ruling On Defendant's Protective Notice of Appeal Denied
United States v. Lance Edgar Owen

U.S. DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Admiralty
Contract to Retire Ship for Scrap Lacked Maritime Commerce Objective, Not in Admiralty Jurisdiction
A. Elephant Corp. v. HiFocus Group Ltd.

U.S. DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Admiralty
Shipping Firm Must Pay Injured Seaman Overtime As Part of His Entitlement to Maintenance, Cure
Padilla v. Maersk Line Ltd.

U.S. DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Antitrust
Court Dismisses Action Arising From iPhone's Discontinuance, Price Reduction by Apple
Li Xi v. Apple Inc.

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).