re: #133 Nerdy Fish

With all that said, I would imagine the appeals court grants him a stay. Courts tend to be risk averse, and while I’m sure there’s a universe where they could say, “Your appeal is unlikely to succeed on the merits, Ms. James now owns your ass,” the safe play is to stay the judgment while the appeals play out. The State of New York would have to hold any seized assets in escrow anyway; no lawyer would risk being disbarred for allowing property awarded in judgment to be disbursed before the appeals had run their course.

IANAL. Doesn’t NY law state that if you can’t post the bond, you can’t appeal?