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Ridge at Red Hawk, L.L.C. v. Schneider

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action seeking the vacation or modification of an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrators erred in determining the proper venue for...

Applied Indus. Materials v. Ovalar Makine Ticaret Ve Sanayi

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In underlying arbitration where respondent Turkish corporation and its chairman were found liable for breaching a contract to deliver petroleum coke,...

Aviation Data, Inc. v. American Express Travel Related Servs. Co.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
Refusal to approve class action settlement based on counsel for defendant's misleading of plaintiffs in the course of negotiations by offering to make...

Int'l Bhd. of Elec. Workers v. IL Bell Tel. Co.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a labor union over a company's proposed shift in employee evaluation policies, grant of plaintiff's motion to compel arbitration is...

Dep't Pers. Admin. v. Cal. Correctional Peace Officers Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Vacatur of arbitrator's award is affirmed as the arbitrator exceeded her powers when she determined that a written collective bargaining memorandum of...

J.C. Gury Co. v. Nippon Carbide Indus. Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Arbitrator's award concluding that a clause disclaiming warranties and excluding consequential damages was unconscionable and unenforceable, and...

Cook Children's Med. Ctr. v. New England PPO Plan of Gen. Consol. Mgmt. Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In an ERISA action brought by a medical center as an assignee of a plan member, summary judgment and award of mediation costs for defendants is...

Gatton v. T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In actions challenging the early termination fee charged to cellular telephone service subscribers and challenging the practice of selling locked...

Wimsatt v. Superior Ct. (Kausch)

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Evidence, Professional Malpractice
In legal malpractice suit alleging that defendant law firm submitted an unauthorized settlement demand to the opposing party in the underlying...

BSC Ins. Co. v. Guy Carpenter & Co, Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit alleging that a reinsurance intermediary failed to obtain adequate reinsurance for plaintiff, summary judgment for defendant is reversed...