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"If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double": Second Circuit Provides ...

Move to federal court or stay in state court—an essential strategic question for defendants of state-court-filed class actions.  Pace of litigation, applicable discovery rules, court familiarity with class actions—the right forum can make a significant difference in litigating a class action.  Although the first choice of forum belongs to the…

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Second Circuit Chooses Pragmatism

In SEC v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc.,___ F.3d __, no. 11-5227-cv (June 4, 2014) (“Citigroup II”), a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit affirmed the SEC’s ability to negotiate settlements without obtaining specific factual admissions from the settling defendants.  The Court reasoned that there is a distinction between trials and…

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