A federal judge in Missouri awarded DRE Health Corporation $66.7 million in prejudgment interest and denied the company’s emergency request for a receiver to seize defendant Anthony Lyons’ assets, rejecting claims that Lyons was dissipating property to...
A New York appeals court affirmed the denial of ExxonMobil’s motion to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company manipulated appraisals to reduce payments from its 2017 acquisition of InterOil Corporation.
SAN FRANCISCO (LN) — A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging Reddit failed to deliver human-generated ad clicks, holding that the contract term "click" broadly includes automated activity.
A venture capital investor who allegedly doubled the shares he was owed under an amended option agreement without telling the founders cannot drag them into arbitration under a partnership agreement they never signed.
A Louisiana federal judge paused her own specific-performance order requiring a Norwegian technology company to hand over proprietary manufacturing know-how to its American licensee, finding that once trade secrets leave the vault, no appeals court can put...
A Massachusetts federal judge kept alive a national bank's breach-of-contract and fraudulent-concealment claims against its loan-participation partner, while dismissing two other fraud counts, in a dispute over alleged concealment of five undisclosed loans...
A federal judge reversed course and voided a Georgia-law arbitration clause that would have forced a Washington warehouse worker to pursue his claims alone.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a pretrial order bifurcating the trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and requiring Musk to file a verified waiver regarding his request for disgorgement directed to the nonprofit.
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a dispute over a motor vehicle deficiency balance, holding that claims under the Uniform Commercial Code and state consumer finance law are not subject to a one-year...
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment in favor of Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union, holding that the one-year statute of limitations for penal statutes does not apply to damages claims under Article 9 of the Uniform...
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment ruling in Connex Credit Union v. Madgic, holding that the three-year statute of limitations for tort actions, rather than the one-year period for penal statutes, governs...
A federal jury in Missouri awarded the plaintiff more than $0.25 million in a commercial contract dispute after rendering a verdict in the case.
A biotech's prelitigation demand letter triggered a first-impression ruling on when Delaware's newly adopted anti-SLAPP statute can reach a contract dispute.
A Delaware investor who lost $250,000 on a mobile health app that its own co-founder admitted was only a "vision" wins summary judgment on fraud — but the fight over alleged self-dealing goes to trial.
The California Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s denial of Blue Origin’s motion to compel arbitration, holding that the company’s employment agreement was both procedurally and substantively unconscionable.
A Maryland federal court has denied a former employee's motion to dismiss, allowing Peraton Inc.'s trade secrets and contract claims to proceed against Sam Hussain for allegedly forwarding confidential bid strategies to his personal email account.
In a dispute over severance pay and fiduciary duties, Southern District of New York Judge Lewis J. Liman has ruled that the burden falls on the plaintiff to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his termination was without cause in an at-will...
The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment action brought by the County of San Bernardino against the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, holding that the insurer’s annual aggregate limit does not apply...
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the seller of a newly renovated oceanfront home breached its purchase contract, an express warranty, and the implied warranty of habitability — while denying the seller's own summary judgment bids on all fronts.