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Below are summaries of cases handled by this office: 

Arlington v. Intereagle Tech, Inc.*
Intereagle failed to pay several of its executive employees back wages and benefits.  It also misappropriated money that the employees invested in the company. The employees, collectively, retained the law firm of Peter M. Agulnick, P.C., to commence a lawsuit.  The result:  Well before trial, we obtained a settlement exceeding a quarter-million dollars for our clients.

Wellston v. Chung-Fuey Group, Ltd.*
Ms. Wellston, a Georgia resident, obtained a seven-figure default judgment against a Chinese corporation for a products-liability lawsuit.  After being unable to enforce the default judgment in Georgia, Ms. Wellston's Georgia attorneys retained our office as "co-counsel" to domesticate and enforce the default judgment in New York.  The Chinese company, which was represented by a well-known "big firm," strenuously opposed the action to domesticate the default judgment in New York -- but lost.  Subsequently, we served restraining notices on certain Chinese banks with offices in Manhattan that purportedly held some of the Chinese company's money.  The result: The Chinese company agreed to a million-dollar settlement.

Shmender v. Ciello*
The estate of an eccentric New York real-estate billionaire sued Mr. Ciello, whom we defended, for various business torts.  The suit sought, among other things, a preliminary injunction and $10 million in money damages.  The result:  After we defeated Shmender's motion for a preliminary injunction, the case was settled and discontinued without our client, Mr. Shmender, paying a penny.

Westworth, et al. v. Gonif-Mills Corp.*
Our firm represented two plaintiffs who obtained a judgment in a different state against Gonif-Mills.  Having no luck enforcing their judgment in their home state, the judgment creditors retained the law firm of Peter M. Agulnick, P.C. to enforce the judgment in New York State.  After domesticating the judgment in New York, research unearthed that a well-known, multi-national corporation periodically paid Gonif-Mills large sums of money, which quickly "disappeared" after being sent.  In response, we served a restraining notice  and information subpoena on the multi-national corporation thereby freezing the  payments to Gonif-Mills.  The result: Goinif-Mills quickly agreed to a six-figure settlement.

Chong v. Arisbrown Spa & Nails, Inc.*
Our office represented a businessman defrauded out of an investment in a local nail-salon business.  The result:  After extensive litigation -- and fear of losing a summary-judgment motion -- the defendants paid our client a settlement in excess of six-figures.  Interestingly, the settlement our client obtained was actually greater than the amount of money out of which he had been defrauded.

Liberty Insurance Company v. Brown*
Liberty Insurance sued its insurance policy holder Ms. Brown, whom we defended.  Liberty Insurance's lawsuit sought the return of a large insurance payment made to Ms. Brown after a fire caused damage to her house.  After making the payment, Liberty Insurance claimed our client committed arson.  The result:  Before trial, the court granted our motion for summary judgment and dismissed the entire lawsuit against Ms. Brown.

* Names of cases with asterisks have been changed to protect the privacy of our clients.

Below are decisions of appellate cases that Mr. Agulnick has successfully briefed or orally argued:

Palazzo v. Corio, 232 F.3d 38 (2d Cir. 2001) (Decided by  Judge Sonia Sotomayor who was subsequently elevated to the  U.S. Supreme Court)  

Baczyk v. Park 25th Assoc., 261 A.D.2d 180, 690 N.Y.S.2d 14 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dep't 1999)
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DeMarco v. DeAnglis, 283 A.D.2d 388, 723 N.Y.S.2d 863 (N.Y. App. Div., 2d Dep't 2001).

Knox v. New York City Bureau of Franchises, 277 A.D.2d 204, 716 N.Y.S.2d 874 ( N.Y. App. Div., 2d Dep't 2000).

Correa v. Midtown Movers, 4 Misc.3d 135, __N.Y.S.2d __ (N.Y. App. Term, 1st Dep't 2004).
 
Citicapital Trailer  v. Patrick's Moving Corp., *  unpublished appellate opinion (N.J. App. Div. 2004).

In re Kelly,  __ A.D.2d __ N.Y.S.2d ___ (N.Y. App. Div. 3d Dep't 2009).

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