Decision: 2021.10.14 Argument: 2021.08.31 vid. tr. Whether a stock conversion option that permits a lender, in its sole discretion, to convert any outstanding balance to shares of stock at a fixed discount should be treated as interest for the purpose of determining whether the transaction violates N.Y. Penal Law ยง 190.40, the criminal usury law….
September Session
Aybar v. Aybar
Decision: 2021.10.07 Argument: 2021.09.01 vid. tr. Whether the Appellate Division improperly ignored this Court’s ruling in Bagdon v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 217 N.Y. 432 (1916), and the United State Supreme Court’s ruling in Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 308 U.S. 165 (1939), by holding that a foreign corporation’s voluntary registration…
Lividini v. Goldstein
Decision: 2021.10.14 Argument: 2021.09.02 vid. tr. Whether, for purposes of a motion to change venue, venue was properly placed in Bronx County under CPLR 503 (a) or (d) when an individual defendant listed a Bronx County address with a licensing agency but it was undisputed that the address was not his principal place of business.
Sassi v. Mobile Life Support Services, Inc.
Decision: 2021.10.12 Argument: 2021.09.01 vid. tr. Whether the New York State Human Rights Law allows employers to refuse to rehire employees who were convicted of crimes during their initial term of employment.