A federal judge granted AT&T summary judgment on a contract reformation claim, holding that a drafter's last-minute edit accidentally eliminated a multi-million-dollar shortfall penalty Atos IT Solutions owed under a telecom services agreement.
A Quebec hospital network that paid $5.25 million upfront for pandemic masks it never received wins partial summary judgment on contract, conversion, and theft claims after the seller spent the deposit on personal expenses and unrelated business deals.
A Pennsylvania federal judge has cancelled a trademark registration for the term "MEDDPICC" and granted summary judgment to plaintiff MEDDICC LTD., resolving the core intellectual property dispute between the two parties.
The Delaware Supreme Court held that a genuine factual dispute over when a commission payment was due precluded summary judgment on a sports agent's breach-of-contract claim against NBA player Evan Turner.
A New Hampshire federal court declined to resolve an ambiguity in an arbitration award on its own, instead ordering the parties to return to the arbitral panel to clarify whether it intended to award attorneys' fees to a John Deere dealer under New...
A federal judge in Oklahoma threw out a building owner's elevator-maintenance lawsuit with prejudice after finding the plaintiff intentionally altered a 55-page inspection report to hide that it was authored by a direct competitor of the defendant.
The D.C. Circuit affirmed that the Omni Shoreham Hotel materially breached its contract with Inova Health Care Services when it relocated a black-tie cancer charity gala to inferior spaces to accommodate a competing event that promised more than three times...
The Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in a putative class action challenging JetBlue Airways Corporation's handling of Transportation Security Administration security fees on non-refundable tickets. The dispute centers on whether JetBlue's contract of...
A federal court in Utah denied a request for preliminary relief by sixteen regional Sport Court distributors, concluding they failed to show they had performed their own contractual obligations — specifically a covenant to meet with the manufacturer to...
A federal judge in Maryland rejected a former government contracting firm’s trade secret and conversion claims against its ex-president and his cousin’s company, but allowed a core fiduciary duty claim to proceed to trial.
A federal judge in Maryland allowed a class action against an energy services company to proceed, ruling that a contract’s requirement to reflect “market conditions” prohibits rates set mainly to maximize profit margins.
A federal judge in Maryland granted partial summary judgment to SRI International, dismissing a defense contractor’s claims that the research institute stole its trademark and breached an implied contract over a lobbying campaign for Navy funding.
A California couple injured on a self-crewed catamaran in French Polynesia must take their negligence claims to Mauritius after a federal judge declined to extend a cruise-ship doctrine to their yacht charter.
A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss Meta's claims that a Florida operator and his companies ran a bait-and-switch scheme on Facebook and Instagram while fraudulently obtaining millions in advertising credit.