Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(United States First Circuit) - Affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff's claims in the case alleging that insurance companies had unlawfully interfered with the plaintiff's right to make or enforce existing and prospective...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit pursuant to the forum selection clause in the parties’ contract because there was no procedural error and the court did not err in dismissing the plaintiff’s...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing the district court dismissal of claims to recover unpaid debt from four entities affiliated with a company that had purchased DVD players from them because a New Jersey summary judgment ruling on a prior breach of contract...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the trial court’s denial of a motion by a residential care facility to compel arbitration because the attorney-in-fact’s decision to admit their ward to an elder care facility was a health care decision that...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing a trial court order granting a motion for attorney fees in a breach of contract suit because, although a later agreement between the parties did include an attorney fees provision, the contract that provided the basis for...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to compel arbitration in a case where the parties had signed an arbitration agreement with a third party many years prior that hadn’t included product...
Business Law
(United States Third Circuit) - Affirming the decision enforcing a rate of unearned wages set forth in a collective bargaining agreement between a former employee and member of the Seafarers International Union against their prior ship, reversing the circuit's own...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing the trial court's order reinstating the Gurneys, the producers of Duck Dynasty, to positions managing the day-to-day operations of the plaintiff company that they once owned and are the minority owners of, who had been fired...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Dismissing an appeal in a case where neighbors who shared a driveway couldn’t peacefully enjoy their easement and sued each other, resulting in a settlement agreement that stipulated to the entry of a judgment to resolve the...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirming a trial court ruling denying a motion to compel arbitration in a case involving damages caused when a rented truck blew a tire while the renters were driving it because neither plaintiff was a party to the rental contract...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Vacating a superior court order denying the petitioner's motion for summary judgment and ordering the motion granted in the case of an insurer whose contract with a company matching surrogates and egg donors with infertile families...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Affirming a judgment requiring the appellant marina to pay attorney fees incurred by a water company and county water resources agency after they successfully argued that contracts between the parties were void, rejecting the marina's...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing the judgment and an order awarding attorney fees in the case of a judgment of dismissal made on the trial court’s own motion in a breach of contract and conversion action because the complaint had alleged all the...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Affirming the judgment that the plaintiff had standing to sue in the case of a breach of contract claim with an oral modification that the defense said breached the parol evidence rule, but finding that the three written agreements at...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming the denial of arbitration to a plaintiff who got a notice relating to a bad check diversion program that elected to participate because, although the notice contained an arbitration clause, it was not a contract subject to the...
Business Law
(United States Federal Circuit) - Affirming the dismissal of a wireless company's complaints for lack of jurisdiction under the Tucker Act in the case of a company whose failure to pay for spectrum licenses resulted in their automatic cancellation by the FCC because...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing the grant of attorney fees to the plaintiff but denial of attorneys fees to an individual defendant in a case where both parties prevailed on a contract and directing the trial court to award attorney fees to the individual...
Business Law
(United States Federal Circuit) - Affirming the dismissal of complaints for lack of standing because the co-owner of the patent at issue was not a party to the actions and the co-owner's ownership interests in the patent had not been transferred to the plaintiff in a...
