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Tatis v. US Bancorp

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Sports Law
Summary judgment for defendant-bank in an action for breach of contract, negligence, and violation of Ohio law based on the bank's payment of forged...

US, ex rel., Atkinson v. Pa. Shipbuilding Co.

Banking Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Military Law
Dismissal of a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) alleging that defendants-companies conspired to, and did, defraud the United States...

In Re: Christine H. Lazarus

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Refusal to set aside a mortgage in a bankruptcy proceeding is vacated and remanded where: 1) there was a preferential transfer under 11 U.S.C. section...

Sobi v. First S. Bank, Inc.

Banking Law, Construction, Contracts
A judgment against plaintiffs on their negligence and breach of contract claims against a bank, which involved an underlying construction defect...

Boyer v. Belavilas

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law
Order holding parents and children jointly and severally liable to repay money to the parents' bankruptcy estate, in an action by the bankruptcy...

US v. Quinlan

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Securities Law, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
The conviction and sentence of a former CEO of a company engaged in mortgage banking for making false statements to the SEC and for conspiring with...

EM Ltd v. Republic of Argentina

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, International Trade
Order vacating restraining notices and orders of attachment imposed with respect to an account of the Banco Central de la Rep-blica Argentina at the...

Lipton v. First Union Bank

Banking Law, Contracts
In a breach of contract action brought by plaintiff-borrower arising from defendant-bank's closing plaintiff's equity line of credit, a judgment for...

Marina Funding Group, Inc. v. Peninsula Prop. Holdings, Inc.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
A judgment for plaintiff in an action involving multiple mortgage foreclosures is affirmed where the record supported a conclusion that defendant's...

B.D.G.S., Inc. v. Balio

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Landlord Tenant Law
Verdict against defendant bank, finding that it had not acted in accordance with reasonable commercial standards by accepting the checks for deposit,...