United States Second Circuit
BAKER v. HEALTH MGMT. SYS., INC., 00-7736
New York Court of Appeals certified to determine whether a corporate officer who successfully defends himself in an underlying action may obtain attorneys fees against the corporation after prevailing in an indemnity action where the corporation did not engage in bad faith under New York Business Corporation Law 724(a).
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/21/2001
- Published 08/21/2001
Judges
- PER CURIAM., Before JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Dennis J. Block,Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York, NY, (Michelle L. Roth, Jasmine Khalili on the brief) for Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Howard I. Rhine, Feder, Kaszovitz, Isaacson, Weber, Skala, Bass & Rhine, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee.