Legal Opinion
Irb-Brasil Resseguros v. Portobello International Limited
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 26, 2009PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered on or about September 30, 2008, which granted plaintiffs motion to permanently enjoin defendants and others acting in concert with them from prosecuting or continuing to prosecute an action in Brazil, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The court properly invoked its equity power to enjoin defendants from prosecuting the action they commenced in Brazil in about April 2008, in order to prevent the waste of judicial resources, unnecessary legal expenses, and duplicative litigation that might lead to conflicting results (Jay Franco &…
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