New York, NY, October 8, 2025 – The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered a Court-Ordered Stipulation dismissing with prejudice all claims against Zlaty Schwartz, individually, in the matter of United States v. Moshe Lax, et al. This marks the conclusion of a protracted […]
Jim Mahon, a shareholder in Becker’s Business Litigation Practice, was featured in a Law360 article, for a unique argument in United States v. Lingat. The case challenges long-standing legal precedent of Klein conspiracy charges in tax cases. Instead of following the usual approach of comparing these charges to the Supreme Court’s […]
In a legal dispute concerning various transactions involving the sale of real property located in Rockland County, one of the parties commenced an action in New York County seeking money damages in excess of 1 Million Dollars. After the New York Supreme Court action was dismissed, the defendants thought that […]
Becker’s client, plaintiff Stefan Soloviev, and his son, Hayden Soloviev, sued defendant Ross School to recover damages related to breach of contract, unjust enrichment, negligent hiring, retention, supervision, and direction, and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Mr. Soloviev’s son, Hayden, attended Ross School where teacher Christopher Maddaleone chaperoned a school […]
The institution of marriage has been around long before the Internal Revenue Code (the “IRC”) was legislated into existence. In fact, the state and local tax (“SALT”) deduction was first enacted by President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Congress during the Civil War as a temporary federal income tax to […]
