Appellate Division, Second Department, Hands Held & Hines Another Historic Win! No Miranda Rights In Civil Cases
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Appellate Division, Second Department held that the lower court should not have ordered that Miranda-like rights be given to non-party witnesses in a civil litigation case, specifically holding: “Here, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting thatbranch of the defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3103 for an order precluding theplaintiffs’ counsel from communicating with any former employees of Equinox without advisingthem that their interests are, or are reasonablylikelyto become, adverse to counsel’s clients’ interestsand recommending that […]
