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VIRTUALMAGIC ASIA, INC. v. FIL-CARTOONS, INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts
Even where a non-resident corporation lacks sufficient California contacts to permit general jurisdiction by California courts, a claim arising out of...

LANDEROS v. CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF CORRECTIONS

Contracts, Government Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Construction workers on a public project cannot ordinarily recover prevailing wages from a public entity, on either the tort or contract theory...

YOUNG v. EQUIFAX CREDIT INFO. SERV., INC.

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a claim for publication of defamatory credit information, res judicata is not a per se bar to a suit based on publications occurring after final...

UTICA MUT. INS. CO. v. WEATHERMARK INV., INC.

Contracts, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A repair contractor's insurer was under no contractual obligation to indemnify its insureds for costs incurred in cleaning up a fuel oil spill on the...

511 W. 232ND OWNERS CORP. v. JENNIFER REALTY CO.

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
A cooperative corporation and individuals sufficiently pleaded a cause of action for breach of contract, by alleging that a sponsor of an Offering...

LOW v. GOLDEN EAGLE INS. CO.

Class Actions, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
An insurer shall not be required to provide a third party defense to a lawsuit for damages from diet products, where the underlying complaint is...

FRANCONIA ASSOC. v. US

Banking Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Because enactment of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act qualified as a repudiation of a housing loan, not a present breach of the loan...

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK v. TRAFFIC STREAM (BVI) INFRASTRUCTURE LTD.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, International Law
A corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands is a "citizen or subject of a foreign state" for the purposes of alienage...

MOGCK v. UNUM LIFE INS. CO. OF AM.

Contracts, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where an insurer, in its correspondence to its insured, did not utilize language from its own policy which would inform the insured that the...

TUBOS DE ACERO DE MEXICO, SA v. AM. INT'L INV. CORP., INC.

Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In consolidated appeals in a commercial dispute arising from a lease of ultrasonic testing pipe inspection equipment, court issued multiple rulings on...