United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of action of ground of in pari delicto is vacated where plaintiff's wrongdoing was far less culpable than defendants' and because, in any event, plaintiff's wrongdoing was not in any meaningful respect the cause of defendants' fraud and misconduct, the doctrine of in pari delicto is not here applicable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 09/01/2006

Judges

• RAKOFF, District Judge., Before POOLER and MINER, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul W. Siegert, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Steven S. Biss, Richmond, VA, pro se, for Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.