A contract dispute over building a child-development center at Fort Hood, in central Texas, today spawned a ruling that will bring joy to firms that put forum-choice clauses in their contracts in hopes of making lawsuits too costly to pursue.
The agreement between Atlantic Marine Construction Company and J-Crew Management, Inc., stated that all disputes between the
You'd really prefer not to see an opinion that starts like this, in a case you argued:
There are good reasons not to call an opponent's argument "ridiculous," which is what State Farm calls Barbara Bennett's argument here.
Uh-oh.
The reasons include civility; the near-certainty that overstatement will only push the reader away (especially when,
Blawgletter has the Vague Notion that bankruptcy law dislikes some kinds of contract clauses. Take your ipso factos, which trigger some change in the contract's status simply because a party filed for bankruptcy relief. Don't laws that aim to treat creditors fairly tend to frown on such efforts to get a Leg Up as
A Seattle jury today hit Motorola with a $14 to $15 million damages award for bad faith in negotiating to license patents that Microsoft's Xbox and Windows products infringe.
The dispute involved patents that Microsoft holds on technologies relating to wireless local area networks and video coding.
Two standard-setting organizations (SSOs) incorporated the Motorola technologies into standards that they set — H.264 and 802.11
Anyway the retroactive modification of a plan can't be used to diminish damages to which participants have been held entitled, even if the modification is lawful. In effect the defendant is arguing that okay, we screwed our participants unlawfully, but we could have screwed them lawfully, and that’s what we’ve now done by amending the
If you watch a lot of daytime TV, you may have seen lots of ads by for-profit schools. The pitches promise you an awesome job, a lot of pay, more sex-appeal, and even, in some cases, super-human powers.
But did you ever think about the people whose job it is to get you to pony