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Hutchison v. Fifth Third Bancorp

Banking Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, M&A
In a breach of contract action arising from a merger agreement in which defendant-merging company guaranteed that participants in the other company's...

Cassady v. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action for indemnity, arising out of an underlying legal malpractice suit, brought by an attorney against his former law firm employer, grant of...

Lee v. Sec. Nat'l Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Remedies
Summary judgment for an insurer in an action seeking a declaration that its tender of certain amounts extinguished any bad faith claim insureds might...

City of Pompano Beach, Florida v. Swerdlow Lightspeed Mgmt. Co., LLC

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action stemming from a suit for wrongful termination and breach of an agreement for the redevelopment of certain land, defendant-city's petition...

LRB Holding Corp. v. Bank of Am., N.A.

Banking Law, Contracts
Summary judgment for plaintiff in a suit for breach of a promissory note, breach of a commercial guaranty, and foreclosure of a mortgage is affirmed...

Larrea v. Fisher Island Holdings, LLC

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
On motion for rehearing, judgment for defendant in a dispute over a contract for the sale of a condominium is reversed where no contract was formed,...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Regar

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
An assignee of a third-party bad faith claim is entitled to attorney's fees pursuant to Florida Statutes section 627.428 when the assignee obtains a...

US v. Jones

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for drug- and weapons-related charges is affirmed over claims that the district court erred in: 1) allowing the government...

Charnay v. Cobert

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving suit against plaintiff's former attorney and his law firm, sustaining of demurrer without leave to amend fourth amended complaint...

Ross v. Kish

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Denial of special motion to strike, under the anti-SLAPP statute, a cause of action for malicious prosecution filed against defendant by plaintiff,...