President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, goes on trial Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and failure...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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.
(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...
(United States Second Circuit) – Vacating and remanding an order of summary judgment to a re-insurer because the district court erred in its interpretation of contracts under prior precedent.
(California Court of Appeal) – Partially affirming and partially reversing the denial of anti-SLAPP motions in a suit whose complaints were partially, but not entirely based upon protected activity in a multiparty suit relating to a long term lease of unimproved...
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing a jury award of millions in damages in a breach of contract suit between a school district employee who formed a Limited Liability Company that eliminated her position as an employee making more than a hundred thousand a...
(United States Second Circuit) - Reversing the dismissal of a contract action pertaining to the defendant's unpaid bonds, certifying the question to the New York Court of Appeals whether claims for interest on principal continue to accrue after a claim for the...
(Supreme Court of California) – Affirming the Court of Appeals determination that the exception for statutory payment deadlines in the construction industry for the withhold of monies from subcontractors where a dispute exists is narrowly read to allow...
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing a decision that a property owner’s umbrella insurer was not liable for breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing when they refused to cover the suit to remove a...
(United States Third Circuit) – Affirming a district court determination that anti assignment clauses in managed healthcare and provider network agreements are not antithetical to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and health insurance plans covered by...
(United States Federal Circuit) – Affirming in part, vacating in part, and remanding a case alleging patent infringement and breach of contract in which the district court granted summary judgment as to antitrust counterclaims, vacating the district...
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the dismissal of a shareholder derivative action filed in California because the forum selection provision on the company’s certificate of incorporation designated Delaware as the forum for shareholder derivative...
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing and remanding an order denying a motion to set aside a default judgment to a company suing for breach of contract in a case alleging damages in an amount to be proven at trial that provided an estimated amount of damages...
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming a trial court’s denial of an annulment for misrepresentation, finding that the husband and wife held different interpretations of a mahr agreement that they never discussed and there was not evidence that the wife...
(United States First Circuit) – Remanding a case involving a bail bonds company’s acts in attempting to retrieve a New Jersey bail jumper from his home in Puerto Rico for briefing and consideration of how Puerto Rico law would apply to out of state bounty...
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming in part and reversing in part the complex real estate and contracts dispute between the owners of a gas station on San Francisco’s Castro street that backed out of a deal with the purchaser, who wanted to convert...
