The New York Court of Appeals last week in Sheehy v. Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP addressed the application of the Statute of Frauds to an oral agreement involving an oral agreement about retirement benefits. Although this is a good case because it explains the one application of the Statute of Frauds, it is even better because it demonstrates an important factor of the Court’s jurisdiction. The Statute of Frauds is a well-settled area of law and this case involved an oral agreement specific to the parties. Some might say that this case has little significance beyond the parties in the appeal. However, the Court most likely wanted to hear the appeal to clarify one of its prior decisions that it rendered in 1964. Therefore, one certiorari factor in a motion for leave to appeal to the Court is that the Court should revisit its holding in older case law.