GSI COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, INC. v. BABYCENTER, L.L.C.

Docket No. 09-2790-cv.

618 F.3d 204 (2010)

GSI COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, INC., Petitioner-Appellant, v. BABYCENTER, L.L.C., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca D. Ward (James T. Smith & Leonard D. Steinman, Blank Rome, LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Raymond L. Fitzgerald , Butler, Fitzgerald, Fiveson & McCarthy, P.C., New York, NY, on the brief), Blank Rome, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

John D. Winter ( Claude S. Platton on the brief), Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before WINTER, RAGGI, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

GSI Commerce Solutions, Inc. ("GSI") appeals from Judge Rakoff's order granting a motion by BabyCenter, LLC ("BabyCenter"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, Inc. ("J&J"), to disqualify Blank Rome, LLP, as GSI's counsel. The court concluded that the doctrine forbidding concurrent representation without consent applies because the relationship between BabyCenter and J&J, which...

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