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DiQuisto v. County of Santa Clara

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff-taxpayers' action against a county and its Board of Supervisors and city officials claiming that the county improperly spent public funds...

T.Co Metals, LLC v. Dempsey Pipe & Supply, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Remedies
In a motion to vacate an arbitral award, the district court's order affirming the arbitrator's original award and vacating subsequent amendments to...

Carr v. Tillery

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an attorney-plaintiff's RICO suit against his former law partners involving a dispute over the division of legal fees in cases handled by the law...

PRM Energy Sys., Inc. v. Primenergy, L.L.C.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action for tortious interference with, and inducement to breach, agreements regarding the development of a gasification technology, grant of...

Pendergast v. Sprint Nextel Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an appeal from the grant of defendant's motion to compel arbitration in a class action against Sprint Nextel Corp. for allegedly charging improper...

US Life Ins. Co. v. Superior Nat'l. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In a motion to vacate an arbitral award in a reinsurance dispute, the denial of the motion is affirmed where, although the process employed by the...

Michigan American Fed'n of State County & Mun. Employees v. Matrix Human Serv.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a labor labor dispute involving reduction of healthcare benefits to union members, decision of the district is reversed as a defendant who...

Mahnke v. Sup. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In proceedings arising from the loss of insureds' home from a fire, insureds' petition for writ of mandate challenging a trial court's grant of the...

Shell Oil Co. v. CO2 Comm., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a motion to a district court involved in the ongoing adjudication of a class action settlement regarding whether the settlement committee's...

Nat'l. Postal Mail Handlers Union v. Am. Postal Wkrs. Union

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action to overturn an arbitral award in a dispute over which union was entitled to perform certain work at a U.S. Postal Service facility,...