Scholastic Corp. v. Najah Kassem & Casper & De Toledo LLC

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

KRAVITZ, District Judge.

In the 1930s most lawyers undoubtedly cheered when the drafters of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure jettisoned the distinction between law and equity by fusing the two systems and seemingly ending the days of the divided bench. As was true with Mark Twain, however, rumors of the demise of the law/equity distinction appear to have been greatly exaggerated. For beginning in 1993 in Mertens v. Hewitt Associates, 508 U.S. 248, 113 S.Ct. 2063, 124 L.Ed.2d 161 (1993), and continuing in 2002 in Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. v. Knudson, 534…