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MacGregor v. Rutberg

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit for defamation and breach of contract against an expert witness in a malpractice suit against the plaintiff, dismissal of the plaintiff's...

Union Planters Bank, N.A. v. Continental Cas. Co.

Banking Law, Contracts, Debt Collection, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute over insurance coverage arising when plaintiff-bank suffered a multi-million-dollar loss stemming from a mortgage lender's fraud, summary...

Adair Group, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In an action brought by plaintiff seeking indemnity under a commercial general liability insurance policy for an arbitration award in a construction...

American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, LLC v. P&O Ports Baltimore, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Transportation
In case involving damage to ship and cargo caused by equipment that broke free of its lashings at sea, summary judgment for defendant stevedoring...

Harris v. Brownlee

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute arising from a settlement agreement purportedly resolving claims that plaintiff's employer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,...

Adrian Energy Assocs. v. Michigan Pub. Serv. Comm'n

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Contracts, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a case arising from a contractual dispute between small power-producing companies and a Michigan utility over the utility's payments for purchased...

Dyer v. Martinez

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In action seeking specific performance on contract for purchase of real property, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed over plaintiff's claim...

Yoo v. Jho

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Remedies
In case involving a contract for the sale of a business dealing in counterfeit goods, judgment awarding partial rescission to plaintiff in an attempt...

Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. v. Electric Mach. Enter., Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
District court's affirmance of bankruptcy court's denial of motion to compel arbitration is reversed as this is not a core proceeding and there is no...

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Buckingham

Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Under the test for coverage set forth in Continental Ins. Co. v. Klug, 415 N.W. 2d 876 (Minn. 1987), where an act of independent significance breaks...