Business Law
(United States Fourth Circuit) - Affirming the district court ruling that the Discovery Channel's termination of their contract with a company distributing their content was a good faith termination because the clause relating to their distribution was ambiguous and...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing an order relating to the sale of land pursuant to the valid exercise of a purchase option in order to undertake an accounting that would provide an appropriate offset for rents paid during the pendency of the litigation...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Affirming that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing a suit between Taiwanese and Japanese companies whose contract had nothing at all to do with California, but still named it as the forum for the resolution of...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Affirming the decision that an air conditioning company was entitled to recover, under a promissory estoppel theory, its bid preparation costs in the stipulated amount of a quarter million dollars after establishing that they should have...
Business Law
(United States Federal Circuit) - Affirming, vacating, reversing, and remanding aspects of a US Court of Federal Claims determination that an engineering company didn't meet standards of proof to show the US breached contracts relating to the construction of flood...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversing the judgment to the extent it related to causes of action for breach of contract and alter ego findings but otherwise affirming a trial court judgment to a plaintiff seeking to retain possession of a vehicle, quieting...
Business Law
(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming the district court's dismissal of an ERISA action brought by employee benefit trust funds seeking unpaid contributions owed under contracts governing the benefit plans that the trust fund managed for a company because the...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) - Affirming the determination that imprisonment on a criminal charge which tolls the statute of limitations only occurs when a person is serving a term of imprisonment in a state prison and the trial court's grant of a demurrer to the...
Business Law
(California Court of Appeal) – Granting a petition for writ of mandate and directing the respondent court to consider a motion by Disney to transfer venue in a case involving damages arising from visits to Disney’s Anaheim park because annual passes and...
Business Law
(United States Third Circuit) - In the case of the complicated fallout from an oil tanker spill, parties were allocated responsibility based on contracts and equitable recoupment claims and were remanded for recalculating damages and prejudgment...
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
In an opinion praised by gay-rights advocates, an en banc federal appeals court has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects employees…
Business Law
A Chicago law firm claims in a lawsuit that the Edelson class action boutique and its founding partner are filing nuisance lawsuits and using...
Business Law
A former Hunton & Williams partner who disappeared nearly 20 years ago before he was charged in an alleged Ponzi scheme has been arrested in…
Business Law
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has signed a bill intended to end “lunch shaming” practices that embarrass children when their parents can’t pay the bill…
Business Law
The U.S. Supreme Court’s swing voter, 80-year-old Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, is reportedly mulling retirement. According to CNN, former law clerks and others close to…
Business Law
The average score on the multistate bar exam in February 2017 dropped by another point, reaching the lowest level since the exam was first...
Business Law
Corrected: An assistant to the solicitor general had a choice to make when Justice Elena Kagan referred to the antecedent clause of a statute. Kagan…
Business Law
A lawyer for the man dragged from a United Airlines plane said at a press conference on Thursday that his client will need reconstructive surgery…
Business Law
Chicago lawyer Thomas Demetrio now represents a second unhappy airline passenger. Demetrio announced Monday that he represents a mother shown in an online video crying…
