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{{a|casenote|[[File:Seymour.jpg|thumb|450px|center|“They say ''[[indebitatus assumpsit]]'' is back in style. I say it never went out.”]]}}A judgment that will surely strike terror into earnest hearts in the global trust and agency community, the US District Court’s [https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ruling-on-citi-s-900-million-transfer-to-revlon-lenders/5f57c39ebdb6e58c/full.pdf stonking 105-page judgment] in the {{casenote|Citigroup|Brigade Capital Management}} addresses a perfect storm of unexpected factors to come to quite the eye-catching — well, eye-''watering'', at any rate — conclusion. | {{a|casenote|[[File:Seymour.jpg|thumb|450px|center|“They say ''[[indebitatus assumpsit]]'' is back in style. I say it never went out.”]]}}A judgment that will surely strike terror into earnest hearts in the global trust and agency community, the US District Court’s [https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ruling-on-citi-s-900-million-transfer-to-revlon-lenders/5f57c39ebdb6e58c/full.pdf stonking 105-page judgment] in the {{casenote|Citigroup|Brigade Capital Management}} addresses a perfect storm of unexpected factors to come to quite the eye-catching — well, eye-''watering'', at any rate — conclusion. | ||
Headline: Citigroup, who as Revlon’s [[loan servicing agent]], accidentally paid half a billion dollars of principal to lenders when it only meant to pay $8m of interest, ''couldn’t have its money back''. | |||
This case has ''everything'': it is as if all the ghastly phantoms of commercial legal practice converged in some mountain eyrie for a satanic feast on the bones of a poor, harmless, well-meaning global banking conglomerate. The [[JC]] liked it so much he has formulated a new equitable principle: ''[[durum caseum per magnos canibus]]'': “hard cheese for big dogs”: a sort of dark inversion of the [[JC]]’s ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]''<ref>“[[little old ladies make bad law]]”</ref> principle. | This case has ''everything'': it is as if all the ghastly phantoms of commercial legal practice converged in some mountain eyrie for a satanic feast on the bones of a poor, harmless, well-meaning global banking conglomerate. The [[JC]] liked it so much he has formulated a new equitable principle: ''[[durum caseum per magnos canibus]]'': “hard cheese for big dogs”: a sort of dark inversion of the [[JC]]’s ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]''<ref>“[[little old ladies make bad law]]”</ref> principle. | ||