Filed May 17, 2010
Defendants’ argument that Lavin had notice of the one-year provision before he sued misses the point. Lavin may have learned of it after he left BS, but he never agreed to it and basic contract principles, as well as CPLR §201, therefore preclude his being bound by it.
Filed December 16, 2013
See N.Y. C.P.L.R. §201 (“An action . . . must be 6 The court in Gross v. Symantec Corp. also dismissed the plaintiff’s unjust enrichment claim “because an express contract existed between [the parties].” 2012 WL 3116158, at *13.
Filed July 30, 2013
See Dkt. 32. The Court does not reach that issue, because it finds American Pipe tolling unavailable even assuming § 201 is a statute of limitation. Case 1:13-cv-01534-PAE Document 41 Filed 07/30/13 Page 15 of 30 16 thereby undermine the Rule 23 class mechanism, to take advantage of the toll, a plaintiff must have been a member of the purported class: “[T]he commencement of a class action suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action.”