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Wagner Constr. Co. v. Pac. Mech. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law
Where parties have agreed to arbitrate any dispute arising out of their contract, the affirmative defense that the statute of limitations has run is...

Chicago Title Ins. Corp. v. Magnuson

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an appeal involving a covenant not to compete, summary judgment for plaintiff-former employer, and a jury verdict awarding it compensatory and...

Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts
Stating a claim under section 1 of the Sherman Act requires a complaint with enough factual matter (taken as true) to suggest that an agreement was...

Orkin v. Taylor

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action brought by descendants of a Jewish art collector claiming that she was wrongfully dispossessed of a van Gogh painting during Hitler's...

Thibodeaux v. Vamos Oil & Gas Co.

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law
In appeals arising from suits brought against a drilling company, in which the drilling company filed third-party claims against a contract labor...

Edwards v. Kia Motors of Am.

Civil Procedure, Contracts
In case involving disagreement over application of the Alabama Motor Vehicle Franchise Act to a retrospective mutual release agreement between a car...

Am. Laser Vision, P.A. v. Laser Vision Institute, L.L.C.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Remedies
An arbitration award in favor of an ophthalmology company on its complaint against a service company which helped run its clinics is affirmed where...

Med. Liability Mut. Ins. Co. v. Alan Curtis LLC

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory judgment action to clarify insurance company's obligation under insurance policies to defend defendants in state court negligence...

Drywall Tapers & Pointers of Greater N.Y. v. Nastasi & Assocs. Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts
In appeals involving construction contractor and a labor union regarding the rights of a party consenting to an injunction and a non-party to appeal,...

Ameron Int'l. Corp. v. Ins. Co. of the State of Pa.

Construction, Contracts, Government Contracts, Insurance Law
In insurance coverage dispute arising from a $10 million settlement of a contract dispute with the federal government and for its related defense...