On August 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed New York State Senate Bill S6536 which established a six-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of certain crimes related to fraudulent practices in respect...more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Senate Bill S6536 into law on August 26, 2019, which immediately reinstates a six-year statute of limitations for claims brought under the Martin Act. ...more
This week New York legislatively circumvented one of the few judicial constraints on New York's Martin Act and Executive Law, restoring a six-year statute of limitations for claims under these broad statutes. On August 25,...more
On August 26, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a significant change affecting New York’s blue sky law (the Martin Act), extending the period during which the Attorney General of New York can take action...more
A bad day for J&J in Oklahoma at the close of the state’s trial against Johnson & Johnson means that the company’s on the hook for upwards of $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis that’s decimated swaths of the...more
In People v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, No. 40, 2018 WL 2899299 (N.Y. June 12, 2018), the Court of Appeals for the State of New York ruled that the three-year statute of limitations of Section 214(2) of the New York...more
On June 12, New York's highest court ruled in a 4-1 decision that Martin Act claims are subject to a three-year statute of limitations, rejecting the New York Attorney General's argument for a six-year limit, and overruling...more
In People v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, New York’s highest court considered the applicable statute of limitations for Martin Act claims, holding in a June 12 opinion that such claims are governed by a three-year...more
On June 12, 2018, a 4-1 majority of the New York Court of Appeals held that claims under New York’s Martin Act are not governed by the six-year statute of limitations generally applicable to common law fraud claims, but...more
The DOJ vs. the AT&T/Time Warner deal. The much-anticipated ruling’s finally in, and . . . the merger’s a go. Repeat, the merger’s a go....more