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Common-Law Dissolution Hits Speed Bumps in Recent Decisions

By Peter A. Mahler on May 24, 2021

Posted in Common Law Dissolution, Dissolution Procedure, LLCs

This week’s New York Business Divorce discusses a pair of recent decisions — one involving a close corporation, the other an LLC — in which the courts grappled with procedural and substantive issues involving claims for common-law dissolution.
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Another Door Closes to Federal Court in Judicial Dissolution Cases

By Peter A. Mahler on January 13, 2020

Posted in Federal vs. State Court

Statutory judicial dissolution claims are not welcome in federal courts which have been using the Burford abstention doctrine to divert them to state court. This week’s New York Business Divorce examines a first impression federal court decision giving the same treatment to a common-law dissolution claim.
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