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IN RE: CARDIZEM CD ANTITRUST LITIG.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Drugs & Biotech
Once it is decided that a restraint of trade is subject to per se analysis, claimed lack of any actual anticompetitive effects or presence of...

AM. STATE BANK v. UNION PLANTERS BANK, N.A.

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Contracts
Where one payee indorsed a check that was payable jointly to two payees, and a bank paid the indorsing payee without the other's consent, the bank's...

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...

MAIN SENECA CORP. v. TOWN OF AMHERST INDUS. DEV. AGENCY

Commercial Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
A town violated General Municipal Law section 862(1), the "anti-pirating" provision, by moving an accounting firm to the town, as use of the term...

CITY OF CARLSBAD v. RUDVALIS

Commercial Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Commercial nursery owner defendants are not entitled to damages for diminution in value to tangible business assets, suffered as a consequence of...

NET2PHONE, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CONSUMER CAUSE, INC.)

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts
Where a private plaintiff which has itself suffered no injury files a representative action under California's unfair competition law, Bus. &...

HILLSIDE DAIRY INC. v. LYONS

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
California's milk pricing and pooling regulations are not exempted from Commerce Clause scrutiny by the Federal Agriculture and Reform Act of 1996....

ARMSTRONG v. AM. HOME SHIELD CORP.

Commercial Law, Contracts
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action for breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation and fraud, alleging that plaintiffs were not...

JOHNSON v. APNA GHAR, INC.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
District court improperly dismissed, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, plaintiff's Title VII claim alleging that his job application was...

CITIZENS BANK v. ALAFABCO, INC.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
A debt-restructuring agreement had a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce to make an arbitration provision in that agreement enforceable under...