United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for plaintiff in a dispute over the enforceability of an attorney substitution agreement is affirmed where defendant's exceptional delay foreclosed his ability to assert rescission and the agreement was enforceable as a matter of state contract law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2006
• Published 01/20/2006

Judges

• MESKILL, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MESKILL and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and A.H. NEVAS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary Logan, Las Vegas, NV (Andrew J. Harakas, Desmond T. Barry, Jr., Condon & Forsyth, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant., Richard T. Sullivan, Sullivan Oliverio & Gioia, Buffalo, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.