NYLJ “District Court Enforces Settlement Agreed to by Email Despite Absence of Formal Agreement
Parties typically expect that a settlement does not become enforceable until there is ink to paper on a formal written settlement agreement. But as a recent case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York reminds us, settlements can be reached by email correspondence, even when certain terms of the settlement are excluded. For instance, a settlement agreement may be enforced even without defining the scope of a release or when parties merely agree to “usu
NYLJ “Tech May Be Global, But Laws Are Still Local: Limits in International Arbitration
New technologies, generally speaking, do not respect old boundaries. That can create great opportunities, but it can also raise unexpected challenges. The internet has global reach and provides on-demand access to a world of content that, a few decades ago, would have been unimaginable. At least that’s true of the internet in America, but the internet in more restrictive countries—including China—is quite different, and the content available there is far more tightly controll