On August 26, 2020, the Second Department issued a decision in Seidler v. Knopf, 2020 NY Slip Op. 04799, holding that an answer to an amended complaint may contain affirmative defenses that could have been raised in the earlier answer, but were not, . . .
On August 26, 2020, the Second Department issued a decision in Seidler v. Knopf, 2020 NY Slip Op. 04800, holding that an abuse of process claim could not be premised on allegedly suing someone maliciously . . .
On August 27, 2020, the First Department issued a decision in Zachariou v. Manios, 2020 NY Slip Op. 04811, holding that a trust beneficiary could not bring an action on behalf of the trust unless she had made a demand on the trustee that had been refused or that such a demand would have been futile . . .
On August 24, 2020, Justice Ostrager of the New York County Commercial Division issued a decision in Beijing Pangu Inv. Co., Ltd. v. Alibaba Group, Inc., 2020 NY Slip Op. 32747(U), dismissing a claim arising from events in China for lack of personal jurisdiction . . .
On August 14, 2020, Justice Masley of the New York County Commercial Division issued a decision in Advanced Alternative Media, Inc. v. Hindlin, 2020 NY Slip Op. 32680(U), holding that consolidation is inappropriate where the plaintiff in one action is a defendant in the other . . .
On August 19, 2020, the Second Department issued a decision in Cypress Med. Surgical Servs., LLC v Jodol Realty Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op. 04534, holding that a fraudulent inducement claim cannot be based on an alleged lack of intention to perform a contract . . .
On August 10, 2020, Justice Masley of the New York County Commercial Division issued a decision in GMX Tech., LLC v. Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., 2020 NY Slip Op. 32634(U), holding that a claim for tortious interference with a prospective business relationship fails without allegations of wrongful means or malice . . .
On August 20, 2020, the Fourth Department issued a decision in Rizzo v. National Vacuum Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op. 04693, holding that defendants were prevented by the doctrine of tax estoppel from denying that the plaintiff owned the percentage of the company reflected in the tax returns the defendants prepared . . .
On August 19, 2020, the Second Department issued a decision in Katz v. Hampton Hills Assoc. Gen. Partnership, 2020 NY Slip Op. 04545, holding that a decision that the plaintiffs had met the standard for amending their complaint did not mean that they had met the higher burden needed to survive a motion to dismiss . . .
On August 19, 2020, the Second Department issued a decision in Pei Qi Chen v. Chen, 2020 NY Slip Op. 04565, holding that a motion to vacate should be denied because of unreasonable delay in bringing it . . .