Nov 15 2012
For the past five to ten years or so, emails have increasingly become the source of a myriad of criminal complaints. Today, I was able to obtain a dismissal of a charge brought against my client after it was established that the complainant had actually sent the offending emails to herself. I decided to write …
Oct 27 2012
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Paul Ceglia,the plaintiff, in a bizarre case brought against Facebook in a Western New York Federal Court was arrested by the US Attorney’s Office yesterday. Ceglia claimed in court that he had a contract from back in 2003 that proved that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised him 50% of the company Zuckerberg was developing. He …
Oct 05 2012
OK so this is not a sexy topic, like the Presidential Debate or Lindsay Lohan’s courtroom attire, but it is important. In a decision that will surprise many litigators, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which covers NY) recently held in Chin v. Port Authority that the failure by a law …
Aug 15 2012
I have been following and blogging about the strange case filed in Federal District Court in Buffalo New York by Paul Ceglia and his lawyer Dean Boland. Ceglia claims he has a written agreement between him and Mark Zuckerberg where Zuckerberg agrees to give him 50% of Facebook in exchange for a small investment and …
Feb 01 2012
For the first time in a NY state court case, an Appellate Division court has adopted the standard set forth in 2003 in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, which set forth guidelines when a party can be punished for the destruction of emails. The NY case, Voom HD Holdings v. EchoStar Satellite LLC, involved a …