WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE v. NESCHIS

Nos. 00 Civ. 7850(RMB), 01 Civ. 6993(RMB).

421 F.Supp.2d 654 (2005)

WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Plaintiff, v. Janet C. NESCHIS, individually and in her capacities as Trustee of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust dated November 18, 1997, and as Trustee of the Trust Created Under the Last Will and Testament of Natasha Gelman dated April 23, 1993, Robert R. Littman, individually and in his capacity as Successor Trustee of the Trust Created Under the Last Will and Testament of Natasha Gelman dated April 23, 1993, and Marilyn G. Diamond, in her capacity as Trustee of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust dated November 18, 1997, and as Trustee of the Trust Created Under the Last Will and Testament of Natasha Gelman dated April 23, 1993, Defendants. Alice Ann Jung on her own behalf, as Executrix of the Estate of Miroslav Jung, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Janet C. Neschis, et al., Defendants.

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

December 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elise A. Yablonski, Leon P. Gold, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, John E. Horan, Fox, Horan & Camerini LLP, New York, NY, for Weizmann Institute of Science.

Andrew Keith Solow, Edward Clinton Crouter, Jane W. Parver, Paul Jerome Curran, Kaye Scholer, LLP (NYC), New York, NY, for Janet C. Neschis, Janet C. Neschis, as Trustee.

John B. Koegel, Koegel & Rosenthal, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Robert R. Littman, Robert R. Littman, as Trustee.


DECISION AND ORDER

BERMAN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

On October 16, 2000, plaintiff Weizmann Institute of Science ("Weizmann") filed a complaint against Janet Neschis ("Neschis"), Robert Littman ("Littman") and Hon. Marylin Diamond ("Diamond") (collectively, "Defendants") alleging that Defendants had engaged in a scheme fraudulently or illegally to obtain the assets of the estate of elderly Natasha Gelman ("Mrs.Gelman"), including...

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