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Murphy v. S. Mut. Mgmt. Corp.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for a bar in a suit brought by plaintiff, who was injured by a drunk driver and sued the bar where the driver had consumed alcohol...

Broward County v. Eller Drive Ltd. P'ship

Commercial Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an appeal stemming from a suit between a county and its property appraiser wherein the county sought a declaratory judgment that county-owned...

Machtinger v. Inertial Airline Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of motion to dismiss complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed where fraudulent misrepresentations made from outside Florida by...

Cloverland-Green Spring Diaries, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Milk Mktg. Bd.

Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
In a dispute involving whether Pennsylvania's minimum wholesale prices for fluid milk violate the dormant Commerce Clause of the Constitution, the...

P & O Nedlloyd, Ltd. v. Sanderson Farms, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, International Law, International Trade, Transportation
Summary judgment for an insurer on a third-party claim by a frozen poultry wholesaler for recovery of lost cargo under an open cargo insurance policy...

Jackson v. Volvo Trucks N. Am., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Transportation
Dismissal of claims against Volvo brought by an investor in Volvo truck dealerships is affirmed over challenges to: 1) Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of a...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Cigarettes Cheaper!

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Decisions holding that a re-importer of cigarettes violated the manufacturer's trademark and rejecting the re-importer's claim of antitrust violations...

Rentas v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Transportation
Dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint for breach of express and implied warranties against a car maker is reversed in part as to a claim for breach of...

Forest Prods. Indus., Inc. v. ConAgra Foods, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts
Summary judgment for defendant in a suit brought by a broker of food packaging materials, claiming tortious interference with a brokerage agreement,...

Horizon Personal Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corp.

Commercial Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, M&A, Remedies, Trademark
In a breach of contract action arising out of the merger of Nextel with and into a subsidiary of Sprint, the court finds that: 1) Sprint Nextel will...