(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 →

(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the trial court’s determination that the arbitration provision and delegation clause in a contract entitled the Reinsurance Participation Agreement between a company and entities the plaintiff alleged fraudulently provided workers’ compensation policies that were illegal and contained unconscionable terms was unlawful and void because the court did not err in determining that the provisions were not enforceable. Read more →

(United States First Circuit) – Vacating the judgment and remanding a case in which the proposed deal for the purchase of 88 rail freight cars resulted in claims for breach of contract because the complaint adequately established the basis for the suit. Read more →

(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the grant of demurrer without leave to amend and a motion for summary judgment to defendants in the case of the alleged failure to disclose defects in the sale of a manufactured home that the purchasers were subsequently unable to refinance as it was not modular because the allegations in the complaint were contradicted by its exhibits, which described the house as a manufactured home. Read more →