Upcoming Arguments in the Court of Appeals in January

Upcoming arguments in the Court of Appeals in January 2018 that may be of interest to commercial litigators include:

Forman v Henkin APL-2016-00222 (to be argued Tuesday, January 2, 2018) ("Disclosure--Discovery and Inspection--Scope of disclosure--social media--whether a personal injury plaintiff may be compelled to produce photographs privately posted on Facebook and authorizations related to plaintiff's private Facebook messages.")
Dormitory Authority v Samson Construction APL-2016-00202 (to be argued Thursday, January 4, 2018) ("Negligence--Architect's Malpractice--Whether Dormitory Authority may pursue a negligence claim against the architect in addition to its breach of contract claim arising out of damages incurred during site excavation for the construction project's foundation; parties--whether City of New York, a nonparty to the underlying construction contract, can assert a claim as a third-party beneficiary as ultimate end-user of the building to be constructed.")
Cortlandt Street Recovery Corp. v Bonderman (and three related actions) APL-2017-00014 (to be argued Tuesday, January 9, 2018) ("Parties--Standing--Whether indenture trustee had standing to assert causes of action for breach of contract, fraudulent conveyance, unlawful corporate distribution, unjust enrichment, and based on an alter ego theory; corporations--disregarding the corporate entity--whether complaint sufficiently stated a cause of action under a veil-piercing theory.")
Paramount Pictures Corporation v Allianz Risk Transfer AG APL-2016-00221 (to be argued Tuesday, January 9, 2018) ("Judgments--Res Judicata--Application of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 13(A) to New York State court cases; whether a party's failure to assert a compulsory counterclaim in a prior federal action precluded the party from pursing the counterclaim in a subsequent state court action under the doctrine of res judicata.")