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DE SOLE v. KNOEDLER GALLERY, LLC

Nos. 12 Civ. 2313(PGG), 12 Civ. 5263(PGG).

974 F.Supp.2d 274 (2013)

Domenico DE SOLE, and Eleanor De Sole, individually and as assignee of Laura De Sole, Plaintiffs, v. KNOEDLER GALLERY, LLC d/b/a Knoedler & Company, Anne Freedman, Glafira Rosales, Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, Michael Hammer, and Jaime Andrade, Defendants. John D. Howard, individually and as assignee of Jaime Frankfurt, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Ann Freedman, Glafira Rosales, Knoedler Gallery, LLC, d/b/a Knoedler & Company, Michael Hammer, 8-31 Holdings, Inc., Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, and Jaime R. Andrade, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory A. Clarick , Emily Reisbaum , Isaac Berkman Zaur , Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP, Aaron Hayes Crowell , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Nicholas A. Gravante, Jr. , Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Mark Allen Robertson , Charles David Schmerler , India DeCarmine , Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Silvia L. Serpe , Paul W. Ryan , Serpe Ryan LLC, New York, NY, Benjamin Daniel Battles , Luke William Nikas , Philip J. Iovieno , Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Albany, NY, Anastasios Sarikas , Office of Anastasios Sarikas, Astoria, NY, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

PAUL G. GARDEPHE, District Judge.

In these actions, Plaintiffs claim that paintings that they purchased from Defendant Knoedler Gallery, LLC ("Knoedler") — on the representation that they had been created by Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning — were forgeries. In addition to Knoedler, the named defendants include 8-31 Holdings Inc., Knoedler's sole member; Michael Hammer, Knoedler's managing member and the...

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