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United States Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal by Klein & Co. Futures, Inc

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2007

On May 21, 2007, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Klein & Co. Futures, Inc., a futures commission merchant, lacked standing under the private remedy provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act to bring a suit for damages against a board of trade and its subsidiaries for failure to enforce rules to prevent a manipulation scheme that led to Klein & Co.’s collapse (Klein & Co. Futures Inc. v. Board of Trade of City of New York, U.S., No. 06- 1265, 52107

T&E litigation update: Greene v. Mullarkey

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

In Greene v. Mullarkey, Case No. 07-30561-HJB, Adversary Proceeding No. 08-03009, 2009 Bankr. LEXIS 2191 (Bankr. D. Mass. Aug. 13, 2009), Christine Greene, her brother Matthew Mullarkey, and his wife Nicole Mullarkey were entangled in what the Bankruptcy Court described as an intra-family feud

Sweeping environmental liability under the bankruptcy carpet: fresh start is not guaranteed

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 5 2010

Businesses considering filing Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection may not necessarily be able to avoid certain environmental cleanup obligations

Unsettled Massachusetts mechanics' lien law to reach favorable settlement

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2010

This case and its companion cases involved contentious construction disputes surrounding the interplay of the Massachusetts Mechanics' Lien Statute in the context of a bankrupt general contractor and a building owner's claims for offset damages

White Collar Roundup, October 2010

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2010

In this detailed and insightful report, the Center for Audit Quality details how financial-accounting fraud can sometimes creep up on a company that would never have expected to become so embroiled in it

For bankruptcy fraud, it's not material

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2012

Misstatements in bankruptcy filings need not be material to run afoul of 18 U.S.C. 1519, according to this opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit