Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming, on issue preclusion grounds, the dismissal of an action challenging the constitutionality of a California Family Code section finding gestational surrogacy contracts enforceable because subsequent state court decisions on the...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - A lawsuit brought against insurance underwriters denying coverage for the loss of a sailing yacht resulted in a decision holding that the insurance application was not a contract, but the policy was, and it was subject to the Federal...
Business Law
(United States First Circuit) - Affirming a bankruptcy court decision that the rejection of an executory contract left the plaintiff with only a pre-petition damages claim in lieu of any obligation by the debtor to further perform under a trademark license...
Business Law
(United States Federal Circuit) - Affirming Court of Federal Claims determinations that the termination of a contract for fuel delivery was properly terminated by the Defense Logistics Agency due to default, but vacating their determination that a termination for...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Certifying two questions of state law to the California Supreme Court asking whether lenders exempted from California Constitutional restrictions are still subject to the California Civil Code prohibition on compound interest without an...
Business Law
(United States First Circuit) - Affirming the district court dismissal of a complaint alleging that Rhode Island changes to firefighter and police officer pension plans was an unconstitutional repudiation of contractual obligations because the complaint failed to...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing the trial court's sustaining of a title company's demurrer and dismissing the title company from the case of a bank that made a business loan assignment, default, and foreclosure because there was a legitimate cause of action...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing the judgment of dismissal of a suit alleging breach of express and implied warranties, intentional and negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and unfair competition after they sold her a car with an undisclosed...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Denying a petition for writ of mandate and lifting the stay in a case involving the assignment of borrowers who transferred their causes of action relating to their home loans to a plaintiff where some of the defendants filed a...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming a district court order approving the class settlement between Trump University and students over the objection and request to opt out by an objector because she failed to opt-out when opportunity was provided and there was no...
Business Law
(United States Federal Circuit) - Affirming in part, vacating in part, and remanding the order granting a preliminary injunction against the defendant declaring that the termination of an agreement was ineffective and ordering compliance, affirming that the plaintiff...
Business Law
(United States Supreme Court) - Reversing a district court determination that inferences which once allowed the presumption that collective-bargaining agreements vested retiree benefits for life could be used to characterize them as ambiguous, permitting the...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing a district court order denying a defense motion to dismiss an ERISA case alleging the breach of fiduciary duties in connection with a retirement plan and vacating subsequent class certification orders because a plan...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing a trial court order denying a motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute the claims of employees they said encouraged fellow employees to quit and sue for alleged employment violations rather than sign a release of the...
Business Law
(United States Third Circuit) - Affirming the district court's determination that an arbitration agreement that directed arbitration to an illusory forum was unenforceable and non-severable in a putative class action suit brought by a man against a lender he claimed...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing a district court judgment of dismissal in a case alleging the intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition arising from broker relations with Trader Joe's because, although they couldn't...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing a district court dismissal of a putative class action holding that the National Banking Act did not preempt California's state escrow interest law and remanding so the plaintiff could proceed with California Unfair Competition...
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) - Affirming the denial of petitions by Wells Fargo to compel bilateral rather than class arbitration between themselves and a group of former employees seeking unpaid overtime, holding that the arbitrator rather than the court must...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming in part, reversing in part, and dismissing in part the district court judgment and orders concerning remedies on various appeals for breach of contract and fraud in a case between a judgment debtor and judgment creditor in...
