Docket No. 08-4966-cv. Argued: August 25, 2009. Decided: February 18, 2010. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, John Gleeson, J. Edward Wagner (Michael P. Atkinson, on the brief), Wagner Wagner, LLP, Staten Island, N.Y. (Daniel J. Baurkot, Basking Ridge, NJ), for Non-Party-Appellants. Stacie L. Hixon, Atkinson, Haskins, Nellis, Brittingham, Gladd, Carwile, Tulsa, OK, for Non-Party-Appellees. Before WINTER, POOLER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges. WINTER
The rights and duties of the partners in relation to the partnership shall be determined, subject to any agreement between them, by the following rules: 1. Each partner shall be repaid his contributions, whether by way of capital or advances to the partnership property and share equally in the profits and surplus remaining after all liabilities, including those to partners, are satisfied; and except as provided in subdivision (b) of section twenty-six of this chapter, each partner must contribute
1. Every partner must account to the partnership for any benefit, and hold as trustee for it any profits derived by him without the consent of the other partners from any transaction connected with the formation, conduct, or liquidation of the partnership or from any use by him of its property. 2. This section applies also to the representatives of a deceased partner engaged in the liquidation of the affairs of the partnership as the personal representatives of the last surviving partner. N.Y. Partnership
1. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this chapter. 2. The law of estoppel shall apply under this chapter. 3. The law of agency shall apply under this chapter. 4. This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. 5. This chapter shall not be construed so as to impair the obligations of any contract existing when the chapter goes into
(a) All papers shall comply with applicable statutes and rules, particularly the signing requirement of section 130-1.1 -a of this Title. (b) Papers filed. Papers filed means briefs, papers submitted pursuant to sections 500.10 and 500.11 of this Part, motion papers, records and appendices. (c) Method of reproduction. All papers filed may be reproduced by any method that produces a permanent, legible, black image on white paper. Reproduction on both sides of the paper is encouraged. (d) Designation