(United States Fourth Circuit) – Affirming the district court’s grant of a declaratory judgment to the plaintiff that it hadn’t breached any contractual agreement with Korea, but refusing a permanent injunction barring Korea from suing them in Korean courts in a contract suit between a US defense contractor and Korea in a complex set of exchanges involved in upgrading the country’s fighter planes. Read more →

(United States Second Circuit) – Vacating and remanding a case that had been dismissed after bench trial for lack of subject matter jurisdiction involving an English court’s judgment pertaining to freight derivative contracts because it qualified as an admiralty jurisdiction due to the agreement’s principal objective to further the plaintiff’s shipping business. Read more →

(United States Federal Circuit) – Affirming the decision by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals dismissing for lack of jurisdiction because the Contract Disputes Act did not provide jurisdiction in a case involving a contract with the Army to establish and operate supply chain during Iraq’s reconstruction and that the Board lacked jurisdiction under its charter and partially dismissing because the decision was not made pursuant under the CDA, so the court lacked jurisdiction to review. Read more →

(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing the award of costs and attorney fees to a company in a lawsuit brought by a former employee alleging the breach of an employment contract because the former employee sought the voluntary dismissal of the case, which he had the right to do, and the court’s refusal to dismiss the case and the imposition of costs and fees were both improper. Read more →

(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the trial court’s cancellation of the filing of a second amended cross complaint and the denial of a motion for leave to amend a first amended cross complaint and a motion to stay proceedings in a case where a party filed multiple cross complaints before awaiting decision and without seeking the leave of the trial court. Read more →