United States Second Circuit

In a trustee's complaint against a company's accounting and law firm alleging that they should have detected the fraud of the company, the district court judge did not deprive the trustee of his right to a trial by jury by concluding to hold an evidentiary hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/15/2003
• Published 07/16/2003

Judges

• BAER, District Judge., Before:  JACOBS and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and BAER, Jr., District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay G. Strum,Kaye Scholer, LLP, New York, New York, Dennis R. McCoy, Hiscock, Barclay, Saperston & Day, LLP, Buffalo, N.Y. for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janice J. DiGennaro, Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, N.Y. for defendant-appellees Robinson, St. John & Wayne, et al., Irwin H. Warren, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, N.Y. (Robert F. Carangelo, Jeffrey M. Greilsheimer on the brief), for defendant-appellee Arthur Andersen LLP., Richard Spinogatti, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, N.Y. (Allison B. Feld, on the brief), for defendant-appellees Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, et al., Gary Naftalis, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, N.Y. (Gregory A. Horowitz, on the brief), for defendant-appellees Storch & Brenner, LLP, et al.