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FRANCISCO v. STOLT ACHIEVEMENT MT

Admiralty, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, International Law, Labor & Employment Law
Suit by a Philippine national, injured on a chemical tanker ship on the Mississippi River, was properly ordered to arbitration where he signed an...

SCANDINAVIAN SATELLITE SYS., AS v. PRIME TV, LTD.

Communications Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Where a complaint is founded on a claim of copyright infringement on broadcast programming, for which declaratory and injunctive relief is sought from...

GLOBAL NAPS, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law, Contracts
The FCC's refusal to preempt the regulatory authority of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy, over interpretation of an...

JACOBS v. CBS BROAD., INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts
A Writer's Guild of America investigation and determination that a claimant was not a participating-writer of a program, was a non-judicial proceeding...

DAIRY FARMERS OF AM., INC. v. TRAVELERS INS. CO.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Summary judgment to a liability insurer is improper, on a claim of breach of fiduciary duty, where a liability insurer defended insureds with...

ROSEN v. STATE FARM GEN. INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A homeowner's policy that expressly defines the term "collapse" as "actually fallen down or fallen into pieces" provides coverage for imminent...

SAN DIEGO WATERCRAFTS, INC. v. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment against the assignee of a lease was improper, where the court erroneously considered a supplemental declaration in support of the...

BASURA v. US HOME CORP.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
Code of Civil Procedure section 1298.7 is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act where undisputed facts indicate that agreements involve interstate...

NATIONWIDE MUT. INS. CO. v. POWELL

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Insurer was not entitled to summary judgment in its action for a declaration that an automobile policy did not provide underinsured motorist (UIM)...

IN RE HALLIBURTON CO.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
An arbitration provision between an employer and an at-will employee is enforced where employer sent notice of a new dispute resolution program to the...