Legal Opinion
United States Football League v. National Football League
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 4, 1985No. 84 Civ. 7484 (PKL)PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER *
LEISURE, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this action 1 have moved to disqualify counsel for the defendants, 2 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (“Paul, Weiss”). The sheer number 3 and volume of the submissions on this motion are indicative of the complexity and importance of the issues the motion raises. A disqualification motion calls into question the ethics of attorneys, who are after all officers of the Court; reflects the movant’s concern with safeguarding the confidentiality of information imparted to its former counsel; and raises the possibility that a litigant…
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- Hull v. Celanese Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
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