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Muir v. Merano

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought under the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act to recover a $10,000 earnest money deposit paid by the plaintiffs, judgment in...

Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London v. Inlet Fisheries Inc.

Contracts, Environmental Law, Insurance Law
The doctrine of uberrimae fidei, in which both parties are held to the highest standard of good faith in the transaction, applies to vessel pollution...

Jewelcor Inc. v. Karfunkel

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Denial of defendants' motion to dismiss a breach-of-lease claim brought by plaintiffs on statute-of-limitations grounds, and a judgment and award of...

Goodman v. Lozano

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts
In a construction defect case where plaintiffs settled with some defendants for amount exceeding damages later awarded by trial judge against...

Estate of Tucker v. Interscope Records, Inc.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law
In malicious prosecution cases brought by the estate of civil rights activist Cynthia DeLores Tucker and her husband against recording labels and...

Mega Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Pieniozek

Contracts, Insurance Law
In case involving life insurance policy, where insured allegedly overstated her income in the policy application, summary judgment for defendant on a...

Alliant Ins. Servs., Inc. v. Gaddy

Contracts, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, M&A
In case involving insurance brokerage business's purchase of a competing brokerage, preliminary injunction entered against former majority shareholder...

Puerto Rico Elec. Power Auth. v. Action Refund

Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In a declaratory judgment action brought by a public utility that generates and sells electric power to businesses and residents of Puerto Rico...

Riverside Syndicate, Inc. v. Munroe

Contracts, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
An agreement by tenants to pay an illegal rent for a rent-stabilized apartment, in exchange for an agreement by the landlord to let the tenants use...

ADM Investor Servs., Inc. v. Collins

Contracts, Securities Law
In an action brought by a futures commission merchant against a futures trader to collect on certain losses, a judgment against the trader is affirmed...