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IN RE PARENTAGE OF M.J.

Contracts, Family Law
The Illinois Parentage Act does not preclude claims for child support based on common law theories of oral contract or promissory estoppel.

COCHRAN v. QUEST SOFTWARE, INC.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Plaintiff in a wrongful termination claim was an at-will employee, as no definite term of employment can be implied from the text of an offer letter....

TEAMSTERS NAT'L AUTO. TRANSPS. INDUS. NEGOTIATING COMM. v. TROHA

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
A federal cause of action exists under federal common law, to enforce an arbitration subpoena against parties who were not signatories to the...

HS RESOURCES, INC. v. WINGATE

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
District court properly held that a lease for natural gas allows pooling and provides for payment of royalties on a pooled basis, but the decisions...

DEP'T OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT & HOUSING v. VERIZON CALIFORNIA, INC.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's state law claim, seeking to be paid for her time off after four weeks, is substantially dependent on an interpretation of a collective...

PAC. GAS & ELEC. CO. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Contracts, Government Contracts, Public Utilities
Energy agreements between petitioner and a federal hydroelectric project operator precluded petitioner from changing energy rates, but the...

NORTHLAND INS. CO. v. STEWART TITLE GUARANTY CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A title insurance underwriter failed to assert any theories of recovery that fell within a claims-made Title Agent, Abstracter and Escrow Agent Errors...

NEUBAUER v. GOLDFARB

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A, Securities Law
Waiver of corporate directors' and majority shareholders' fiduciary duties to minority shareholders in private close corporations is against public...

NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. MINING SPECIALISTS, INC.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Based on a company's failure to afford miners with notice of their contractually guaranteed right to recall, and to collectively bargain, an order...

G.C. v. WILSON

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Sanctions
Federal law governed confirmability of an arbitration award, and the district court did not err failing to consider legality of a franchise agreement...