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Second Department Steps into the Sanctions Fray and Reverses Trial Court’s Lenient Ruling on Discovery Misconduct

Blog: The Westchester Litigator

CPLR 3126 provides the trial courts with broad discretion to sanction parties for failing to comply with their discovery obligations.  One of the most drastic remedies is striking a party’s pleading, which requires a clear indication that a party’s failure to comply with discovery is “willful and contumacious.”  Given the […]

Win Some Lose Some: Second Circuit Affirms FLSA Fee Award Where Work on Successful and Unsuccessful Claims is “Inextricably Intertwined”

Blog: The Westchester Litigator

According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York’s Labor Law (NYLL), statutory fee-shifting trumps the default American rule that each party bears its own fees and costs and obligates defendants to pay the attorneys’ fees of prevailing plaintiffs. What happens when plaintiffs prevail on some claims but […]