Legal Opinion
In Re: Gaston & Snow, Debtor, Alfred J. Bianco, as Plan Administrator to the Estate of Gaston & Snow v. Robert A. Erkins & Bernadine Erkins
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 19, 2001No. 2000PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 Erkins 1 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…
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