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DUDLEY v. HANNAFORD BROS. CO.

Constitutional Law
A policy, which forbade the manager of the store in question from reconsidering a clerk's initial refusal to sell alcohol to a disabled person whose...

MIDSTATE SIDING & WINDOW CO., INC. v. ROGERS

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law
The Credit Services Organizations Act does not apply to a transaction between a retailer and customers, where the retailer facilitated the extension...

US v. MACHADO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court erred in measuring loss on the basis of the retail value of the theft, rather than the wholesale value, as the appropriate standard for...

MORRIS v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgment as a matter of law for a department store in a slip-and-fall case is reversed where material evidence was sufficient for an inference that...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. JOHNSON

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
Defendant in a personal injury action arising from falling merchandise had no duty to preserve certain missing evidence, and the trial court abused...

ARGUELLO v. CONOCO, INC.

Civil Rights, Commercial Law
Customers intending to make a purchase were not deprived of their ability to enter into a contract on non-discriminatory terms under 42 U.S.C. section...

FLOREZ v. LINENS 'N THINGS, INC.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law
An allegation that a store improperly requests personal identification information from its customers is sufficient to state a viable cause of action...

BROZO v. ORACLE CORP.

Commercial Law, Contracts
A plan governing a sales representative's commissions was not ambiguous, as it clearly reserved to the company the discretion to cap plaintiff's...

GEN. TRADING INT'L, INC. v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law
Both the terms of parties' agreement for goods sold and the statute of frauds barred enforcement of an alleged oral agreement to reduce the amount...

LORILLARD TOBACCO CO. v. ROTH

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Tax Law
The Department of Taxation and Finance properly found that certain cigarette manufacturers' promotions may be presumed to create a kind of price...