Bianco v. Erkins (In re Gaston & Snow)

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Senior Circuit Judge:

Robert and Bernadine Erkins, an Idaho couple, appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.) The judgment entered following a jury trial. The jury found that the Erkins1 breached an oral contract to pay their attorneys, the now defunct and bankrupt law firm of Gaston & Snow (“G & S”), on an hourly basis. The jury awarded G & S’s trustee in bankruptcy, plaintiff-appellee Alfred J. Bianco, $1,800,841.41 for breach of contract damages. Following the jury verdict, the district judge…