It’s time for another Court of Appeals news roundup. Once again, we’ve relied on our own research to gather the sources this week but would welcome any suggestions that you might have. Please email us any ideas (twentyeagle@twentyeagle.com).
Several outlets covered the arguments earlier this month in White v. Cuomo, about the Legislature’s power to regulate fantasy sports. Coverage comes from Spectrum News, Law360, and Casino.org.
Several outlets also covered reports that Judge Jenny Rivera is the only Court of Appeals judge not to have received the Covid-19, making her the only judge to appear by video during oral arguments. Coverage comes from Law360, the New York Post, the New York Law Journal, and Above the Law.
In the New York Law Journal, Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. discuss the Court’s recent decision in Aybar v. Aybar, holding that out-of-state corporations don’t consent to be sued in New York by registering to do in-state business. The Law Journal also carried earlier analysis of the case from Professor Patrick Connors, a New York civil-procedure scholar who authors New York Practice (affectionately called “Siegel’s” by many New York practitioners).
At Lexology, John J. Kuster, Marissa Alter-Nelson, and Gregory Jacobs analyze the Court’s recent decision in Adar Bays, LLC v. GeneSYS ID, Inc., predicting that the decision “may affect lenders who use convertible loans when lending to corporate borrowers” and that, as a result of the decision, “[c]orporate lenders should brace themselves for defaulting borrowers of such loans to raise criminal usury as a defense in civil actions.” In his “Money Stuff” column for Bloomberg, Matt Levine also looks at what Aday Bays might portend for lenders.
Posted on 2021-10-25.