Ex-Partners’ Ugly Battle Over Digital Assets Headed for Trial (2)

A nasty dispute centered around whether an upstart litigation boutique ousted a founding partner to seize his share of a crypto asset must be resolved at trial, a New York judge ruled.

The issues at the center of the case are strongly disputed and require getting to the bottom of “genuine issues of material fact,” US District judge John Koeltl said in a Nov. 24 decision denying the parties’ motions for summary judgment.

The decision sets the path for a trial in New York’s Southern District over whether the firm, Freedman Normand Friedland, properly removed its founding partner, Jason Cryulnik, ...