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Sutherland v. Ernst & Young LLP

Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's order denying defendant's motion to dismiss and to compel arbitration of plaintiff's putative class action brought by...

Glaski v. Bank of America

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiff-borrower's action challenging defendant-bank's nonjudicial foreclosure is reversed and remanded, where: 1) although the...

Civic Partners Stockton, LLC v. Youssefi

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Dismissal of plaintiff's action against the private defendants, arising out of the county defendants' decision to contract with the private defendants...

Corvello v. Wells Fargo Bank

Banking Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Debt Collection
Dismissals of actions challenging defendant-bank's decision not to offer permanent mortgage modification to plaintiff-borrowers is reversed and...

Fidelity Co-operative Bank v. Nova Casualty Company

Contracts, Insurance Law
Summary judgment to defendant-insurer on plaintiff's claim that an all-risk insurance policy covered the subject water damage caused to an to an...

Municipality of Mayaguez v. Corporacion Para El Desarrollo

Civil Procedure, Contracts
In an action in which plaintiff alleges that alleging that defendant's failure to comply with several regulations issued by the Department of Housing...

Lagstein v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
Following plaintiff's successful result in obtaining confirmation of an arbitration award against defendant-insurer regarding his disability insurance...

Hayes v. WalMart Stores Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts
The trial court's order granting plaintiff's motion for class certification in an action asserting claims for violation of the New Jersey Consumer...

Zhang v. Superior Court (California Capital Insurance Company)

Commercial Law, Contracts, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Although Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Companies bars private actions for unfair insurance practices under the Unfair Insurance Practices Act...

Citizens Business Bank v. Gevorgian

Banking Law, Construction, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action involving competing claims of lien priority between the defendant-seller of real property, which took back a security interest on...