Amtruck Factors v. International Forest Products, Inc.

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• holding that a district court has discretion to excuse non-compliance with local rules in the interest of justice
• noting that New York law requires “knowledge of the underlying wrong” for claims of aiding and abetting fraud and breach of fiduciary duty
• holding that a complaint sufficiently pleaded aiding and abetting claims when a corporate officer had “personal relationships” with the primary tortfeasors and testified that he was aware of a number of suspicious elements of the at-issue transactions
• holding that the district court’s treatment of a motion filed under Rule 59 as timely supported the conclusion that the motion timely filed even though supplemental pleadings were filed after the ten day period to cure technical defects in the original pleadings
• noting that “a claim for aiding and abetting fraud requires plaintiff to plead facts showing the existence of a fraud,” among other elements (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that the Wagoner rule is derived from common law agency principles

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