Legal Opinion
Diduck v. Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 31, 1992No. Nos. 805, 806 and 807, Dockets 91-7618, 91-7642 and 91-7644PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
This suit stems from the construction of Trump Towers at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in Manhattan. This marble-sheathed building was built by Trump-Equitable Fifth Avenue Co. (Trump-Equitable), a partnership of Donald J. Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. This case illustrates an immutable law with respect to falsehoods — as immutable as the one respecting gravity Sir Isaac Newton conceived upon seeing an apple fall from a tree: having first manufactured a falsehood, a person is forced to invent more to maintain it; yet, as here, in…
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