United States Second Circuit

In breach of contract action based on defendant's failure to indemnify plaintiff for amounts paid to settle claims by the bankrupt estate of a law firm, the district court's action of setting aside the initial jury verdict in plaintiff's favor and denying a new trial based on a tainted jury, were within its discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2003
• Published 07/28/2003

Judges

• RAGGI, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, KATZMANN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William Simon,McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt, LLP, White Plains, New York (Anne De Sutter, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant., Mark R. Kravitz, Wiggin & Dana LLP, New Haven, Connecticut (Jonathan M. Freiman, on the brief) and Philip Halpern, Collier, Halpern, Newberg, Nolletti & Bock, LLP, White Plains, New York, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.