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The legal wrangling in Schneiderman vs. the Manhattan Club continues as both parties have filed new briefs to back up their oral arguments at the March 11 hearing before Judge Rakower. Here are a couple excerpts that may be of interest to TMC owners. From Eichner's attorneys: "The Attorney General's attempt to minimize the scope of its injunction as 'very narrow' and 'affecting' the individual respondents in their business capacity only" is outrageous. Armed with allegations on mere information and belief, and the affidavit of an investigator that was contradicted by its own attachments, the Attorney General has shut down a functioning business, forced the termination of 97 percent of Manhattan Club staff, prevented the company from foreclosing on delinquent owners at the expense of non-delinquent owners, sullied the reputations of respected members of the business community, and forced the respondents to incur tremendous legal costs." Here is another statement from the Eichner team: "The Attorney General's assertion that respondents are somehow responsible for the length of this investigation is baseless. Respondents have complied with all of the Attorney General's onerous requests, have made staff available for daylong examinations (indeed, some examinations have continued over the course of several days), and have responded in a timely fashion to the Attorney General's requests. The Attorney General recently renewed its request for the examinations of the individual Respondents (the Eichners and Scott Lager) after pulling this request earlier this year once Respondents sought and obtained a Temporary Restraining Order staying those examinations pending briefing in light of the Attorney General's ongoing criminal investigation. Now that the Attorney General again seeks those examinations, Respondents will refile their motions (to block the depositions)." These assertions, along with others, were filed with the NY courts on April 12, 2016.