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DiFolco v. MSNBC Cable L.L.C.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In an action for breach of contract (and related New York Labor Law violations), defamation, and tortious interference with prospective business...

Matschiner v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Contracts, ERISA
In an action to recover a death benefit paid to an individual defendant by defendant-insurer, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where...

Gulf Coast Shell & Aggregate LP v. Newlin

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In an action against an oyster dredge in rem, under Admiralty Rule D, for possession and to try title to the dredge, and against an individual...

Holmes v. Summer

Banking Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In homebuyers' suit against the seller's brokers, claiming that the brokers were under an obligation to disclose to the buyers that the property was...

Arrowood Indem. Co. v.Travelers Indem. Co. of Connecticut

Construction, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an insurer's suit against another insurer for equitable contribution involving a negligence suit against a general contractor, and a dispute over...

Cogswell v. CitiFinancial Mortgage Co., Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's breach of contract suit against defendant-CitiFinancial, after an unsuccessful appeal of the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's...

Nisqually Indian Tribe v. Gregoire

Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Indian Law, Tax Law
In an action claiming that the State of Washington breached a contract with plaintiff Indian tribe by entering into an agreement with another tribe,...

Preston Law Firm, L.L.C. v. Mariner Health Care Mgmt. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts
In an action by a law firm against a client for nonpayment of legal fees, judgment for plaintiff is vacated where a valid compromise was formed...

Mid-Continent Cas. Co. v. Global Enercom Mgmt., Inc.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an insurer's suit for indemnification, arising from an underlying suit involving subcontractor's workers who fell and died after being hoisted up...

In Re: Res. Tech. Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Sanctions
In Chapter 7 proceedings, bankruptcy court's rejection of the bankruptcy trustee's proposed assignments of the debtor's contracts with four Illinois...