Contract and Virtual Signatures

The contract with the signature should stand up. The echosign should be upheld as a proper signature. General Construction Law § 46: “The term...

With the limited information provided, the answer is that the contract is effective upon the time of its signing. Nieves v. Cmty. Choice Health...

Contract question (term of agreement)

Without further information, a contract term “for a period of 1 year not to exceed 3 years,” though ambiguous, should be held to mean that the...

Is my lawyer wrong? Judge will decide judgement based on documents submitted?

Cases in housing court are brought by summary proceedings, governed by Article 4 of the CPLR. The court is supposed to decide the case upon the...

If anyone has any DBA (Doing Business AS) in the county record; then the owner of the business can file any lawsuit at his own?

The person who has the business under his own name may sue without a lawyer. However, to maintain the law suit, the person may be required to...

Selected as the best answer

You have a statutory remedy that you can use. General Business Law Sec. 349(h). New York Univ. v. Continental Ins. Co., 87 N.Y.2d 308, 321...

[1] On the one hand, unpublished decisions, technically do not have precedential value. Yellow Book of NY L.P. v. Dimilia, 188 Misc. 2d 489, 491,...

Whose signature is required in the EBT for it to be in the admissible form?

Latest case law says that stenographer signature is sufficient. Zalot v Zieba, 81 A.D.3d 935, Second Dept. [2011]: “Contrary to the plaintiff's...

I was named as a defendant along with 2LLCs that I own. Can I file a motion to dismiss and have the LLCs join in the notice?

Unless you are an attorney, you cannot make the motion on behalf of the LLCs. Michael Reilly Design, Inc. v. Houraney, 40 A.D.3d 592, 593-594,...

Is possible to enforce/collect on a debt a cash strapped business owes to me without a court order?

If you billed the business under your individual name, not as a corporation, you can file an action yourself, as a pro se plaintiff. This does not...