Secrecy is a relative concept. If you think a limited liability companies (LLC) will protect you from a vindictive spouse, cheated business partner or Uncle Sam, you’re mistaken.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Requests for Admission in Housing Court
It’s believed that 90% of tenants in landlord-tenant cases brought in the Housing Courts of the Civil Courts of New York are unrepresented. The reasons are obvious – lawyers aren’t cheap. And I’d guess but I don’t know that most people brought into Housing Court aren’t in the best financial situation. Many of them may live […]
Limited Liability Companies and Diversity Jurisdiction
If you’re a defendant and the plaintiff is a limited liability company and you get dragged into federal court based on diversity jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. § 1332), make sure you’re not there through crafty attempts at forum manipulation.
Cell phone subpoena part 3
The final component of a cell phone subpoena is federal Form AO 88B. This is an official federal court form that you have to include when serving the subpoena. Page three of this form has the relevant rules on compliance, enforcement and other things.
Landlord v. Bernard Goetz
I’m representing Bernie Goetz in an eviction case brought by his landlord, Courtney House, LLC. They claim Bernie has a squirrel or rat or something and that he has to get rid of it or else they will terminate his lease. This case was started in March, 2015 in the Housing Court in New York […]
Cell phone subpoena – Specific Requests
A cell phone subpoena has multiple components. In the first post related to this topic, I provided the cover letter to the wireless provider and the “Notice of Subpoena Duces Tecum…”
Serve a subpoena to get cell phone records
every single theme and option, it would give me a good excuse to never produce or write anything. My goal here is to write things and provide documents that may be useful to people searching the internet. One of the biggest problems I’ve had as a lawyer is in finding templates of legal documents. Sure, […]