Mejia Mendez v. Sweet Sam's Baking Company LLC

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK panne ee ee ee eee K KELVIN MEJIA MENDEZ and ANDRES PEREZ, individually and on behalf of others similarly : situated, : : 18-CV-9910 (JMF) Plaintiffs, : : MEMORANDUM OPINION -V- : AND ORDER SWEET SAM’S BAKING COMPANY LLC (d/b/a : Sweet Sam’s Baking Company), DAVID : GROGAN, and ESPERANZA LOPEZ, : Defendants. :

panne ee ee ee eee K JESSE M. FURMAN, United States District Judge: The parties shall appear on January 10, 2020, at 10:15 a.m. in Courtroom 1105 of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Centre Street, New York, NY, for oral argument on their cross-motions to disqualify and preclude. At oral argument, counsel should be prepared to address, in addition to the arguments and issues addressed in their memoranda of law, whether Mr. Androphy’s testimony and email — even if relevant to Mr. Perez’s credibility — are inadmissible under Rule 608(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence as extrinsic evidence of specific conduct. See, e.g., Lewis v. Baker, 526 F.2d 470, 475 (2d Cir. 1975) (“The relevancy of testimony which aids in the jury’s determination of a party’s credibility and veracity has been repeatedly affirmed. Although an opponent is not permitted to adduce extrinsic evidence that a party lied on a previous occasion, he may nonetheless ask questions to that end.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)). SO ORDERED. Dated: December 26, 2019 New York, New York JESSE □□ FURMAN United States District Judge