Legal Opinion
Alderman v. Pan Am World Airways
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 16, 1999No. Docket No. 98-7330PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESKA, District Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant Marion K. Alderman appeals from an order entered January 20,1998 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Platt, /.), which directed release of escrowed funds in favor of appellee Mark Aalyson, an attorney, the court having enforced the contingency-fee retainer agreement. In enforcing the agreement, the district court determined that Alderman had no grounds to dispute the agreement as there had been no fraud in the inducement.
For the reasons that follow, we affirm.'
BACKGROUND
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