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Julia M. Ansanelli

Julia Ansanelli earned her bachelor's degree from New York University and her J.D. from Touro Law Center, where she graduated as valedictorian of her division. During law school, she served as case note editor of the Touro Law Review and vice president of Touro's Latin American Law School Association. Julia also interned for the Honorable Magistrate Kathleen Tomlinson in the Eastern District of New York.

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Appellate Court in New York Confirms Civil Conspiracy is Not an Independent Cause of Action

In early April 2020, the First Department affirmed the dismissal of a complaint by a Russian lawyer who had received an L.L.M. from Fordham University alleging “civil conspiracy” against Fordham and several American attorneys, reasoning that New York does not recognize a stand-alone claim of civil conspiracy.… Continue Reading

To the Victor Go the Spoliation Sanctions: Eastern District of Louisiana Exercises Inherent Power to Issue Sanctions for Spoliation

By Julia M. Ansanelli on February 27, 2020 Posted in Litigation, Media and Technology

Parties should think twice before posting potential evidence on social media, as the Plaintiff in Guarisco v. Boh Brothers Construction learned recently. The Eastern District of Louisiana imposed sanctions on Plaintiff for deliberately producing an altered photo, which Plaintiff had previously posted on social media in its unaltered form. Rather than relying on Rule 37(e), … Continue Reading

No TKO: California Judge Refuses to Disqualify Counsel from Patent Litigation

By Julia M. Ansanelli on October 23, 2017 Posted in California Rules, Ethics, Litigation, Telecommunications

Last week, a federal judge in California denied the plaintiff’s motions to disqualify the defendant’s counsel, finding that the firm’s former representation of the plaintiff was not sufficiently recent, substantial, or substantively related to the firm’s current representation of the defendant to warrant disqualification. The plaintiff, IPS Group, Inc., brought two related lawsuits against Duncan … Continue Reading