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BY: Edward J. Levin
POSTED: January 16, 2012 Tags: Appellate Division, edward j. levin, First Department, Fortress Investment Group, fortress v. dechert, New York Supreme Court, Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Dewey
In Summer 2010, the legal opinion world[1] was rocked by news that the claim of affiliates of Fortress Investment Group against the law firm Dechert LLP, for $50 million in damages arising from a legal opinion letter given by Dechert, had survived a motion to dismiss. That world settled down somewhat on the news that [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 27, 2011 Tags: Appellate Division, court, GPS, Michael Cunningham, new york, privacy, rights, tracking, upholds
ALBANY, N.Y. — A midlevel New York court on Wednesday upheld the state use of a tracking device on an employee’s private car to investigate whether he was skipping work and falsifying time sheets. The Appellate Division panel split over whether that secret Global Positioning System tracking in 2008 violated Michael Cunningham’s constitutional privacy rights. [...]
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