HMB Acquisition Corp. v. Cohen
District Court, S.D. New York
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
This case involves a dispute between a purchaser of assets relating to a condominium project (“HMB”) and homeowners who are alleged to have interfered with HMB’s contract and other rights. HMB initiated a pre-complaint discovery proceeding in the courts of New York State by ex parte order to show cause under CPLR 3102, citing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act as one of the statutes which may have been violated. HMB's application sought among other things means of identifying individual homeowners who may have been…
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