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ABN Amro Verzekeringen BV v. Geologistics Ams., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Transportation
In an action for money damages alleging $500,000 in damage to cargo, the following rulings are affirmed: 1) shipping contracts limited the defendants'...

Gym-N-I Playgrounds, Inc. v. Snider

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit brought by tenant, playground equipment manufacturing company, against its landlord arising out of a building fire, summary judgment for...

Cryoport Sys. v. CNA Ins. Cos.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a suit brought against insurers alleging they violated the unfair competition law with their methods of collecting unearned premiums from...

Highland Capital Mgmt. LP v. Leonard Schneider

Banking Law, Commercial Law
In answer to a certified question by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, eight promissory notes at issue in the case fall within the...

Wood v. Stratos Prod. Dev., LLC

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Debt Collection
In the bankruptcy context and the "ordinary course of business" exception to the prohibition on preferential transfers, when the transaction at issue...

Int'l Strategies Group, Ltd. v. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit against lawyers and law firms to recover $4 million lost in a series of fraudulent transfers, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed...

CertainTeed Corp v. Williams

Commercial Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a company seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant against an employee who began working for a competitor, denial of a preliminary...

Williams Elecs. Games, Inc. v. Garrity

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal on remand of a state law fraud claim after all federal issues had dropped out of the lawsuit is affirmed where the district court judge's...

Illusions - Dallas Private Club, Inc. v. Steen

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action challenging a Texas statute that prevents sexually-oriented businesses located in certain political subdivisions from obtaining or...

CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. Werner Enters.

Attorney's Fees, Commercial Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Trade Secrets, Transportation
In an action involving a corporation's allegations that its competitor lured away employees who had signed employment contracts, dismissal of common...