New York Ass'n for Retarded Child. v. Carey
711 F.2d 1136 (2d Cir. 1983) Cited 2,106 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding unreasonable the addition of contingency bonuses to fee awards to non-profit law offices
Southern New England Telephone v. Global Naps
390 F. App'x 44 (2d Cir. 2010) Cited 748 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that "a clear statement from Congress is required before we conclude that a statute withdraws the original jurisdiction of the district courts"
Fujitsu Ltd. v. Federal Exp. Corp.
247 F.3d 423 (2d Cir. 2001) Cited 1,000 times 6 Legal AnalysesHolding that conclusory allegations cannot defeat summary judgment
Residential Funding Corp. v. Degeorge Financial
306 F.3d 99 (2d Cir. 2002) Cited 894 times 33 Legal AnalysesHolding evidence of bad faith or gross negligence that satisfies the culpable-state-of-mind requirement is also usually sufficient to satisfy the relevance requirement
Kronisch v. U.S.
150 F.3d 112 (2d Cir. 1998) Cited 867 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding that plaintiff's "circumstantial evidence" was sufficient to "entitle him to proceed to trial."
Agiwal v. Mid Island Mortgage Corp.
555 F.3d 298 (2d Cir. 2009) Cited 551 timesHolding that it was appropriate for the district court to default the defendant after he failed to comply with discovery orders for a "span of approximately six months"
Daval Steel Products v. M/V Fakredine
951 F.2d 1357 (2d Cir. 1991) Cited 609 timesHolding parties have "no absolute entitlement to be 'warned' that they disobey court orders at their peril."
Shcherbakovskiy v. Da Capo Al Fine, Ltd.
490 F.3d 130 (2d Cir. 2007) Cited 326 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding that "production may be required" if a party has "access and the practical ability to possess" requested documents
In re September 11th Liability Insurance Coverage Cases
243 F.R.D. 114 (S.D.N.Y. 2007) Cited 78 times 4 Legal AnalysesFinding "negligence or worse" and imposing monetary sanctions where counsel obtained a relevant document in March 2003, but "left it buried in a box for nearly two years," during which time they "fail[ed] to recognize" its importance even "when alerted to its possible existence by opposing counsel"
Lewis v. Coughlin
801 F.2d 570 (2d Cir. 1986) Cited 137 timesFinding that “an attorney's fee award should be only as large as necessary to attract competent counsel” and collecting cases in other sorts of federal litigation in which fees awarded “are adequate to attract competent counsel, but which do not provide windfalls to attorneys”
Rule 37 - Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions
Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 Cited 47,365 times 329 Legal AnalysesHolding that a party may be barred from using a witness if it fails to disclose the witness