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The Importance of the Right Comma
Contract lawyers know how important a misplaced comma can be. So do engineers, writes business lawyer Alexander M. Geisler of Philadelphia’s Duane Morris LLP in Mind Your Language. In fact,…
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PING: Class Action Firm on the Receiving End of a Lawsuit–For OnceURL: http://www.companycounselor.com/2006/03/class_action_firm_on_the_recei.htmlIP: 216.92.242.28BLOG NAME: CompanyCounselorDATE: 03/01/2006 06:02:56 PMFranklin G. Snyder of the ContractsProf Blog has an interesting post about a case filed by an associate against her former (I assume) law firm, Bernstein Litowitz Berger Grossman. According to Professor Snyder, the associate alleged that she acce…
A recent British case has an interesting contract interpretation issue, decided by the court on the ground that a contrary interpretation would be “odd and uncommercial.”The case, John Roberts Architects…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Contract Interpretation
In Izquierdo v. Sills, download file, the Chancery Court applied the contract interpretation principles of course of performance; course of dealings; and usage of the trade in aiding the analysis…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Contract Interpretation: Specific Term Prevails Over General
The Delaware Supreme Court, in DCV Holdings, Inc. v. Conagra, Inc., download file, reviewed a trial court ruling on claims that the seller should be responsible for antitrust violations and…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Arbitrability Issues Addressed Again
Vice Chancellor Strine decided a second case this month dealing with arbitrability of a claim, based on an interpretation of an arbitration clause and whether it covered the claims being…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Contract Interpretation
Applying contract interpretation principles under New York law, the Chancery Court ruled that terms of an agreement were violated when restricted funds intended as security for a note were used…
ContractsProf Blog
Expensive Yacht Only “Incidental” to Oral Sex
Here's a nice contract interpretation problem, from Buy This Book or We'll Sue You, by Laura & Attila Benko. The case is Peters v. Firemen's Insurance Co., 67 Cal. App.…
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PING: Teaching Academy Chicago Publishers v. CheeverURL: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2005/11/teaching_academ.htmlIP: 72.34.36.130BLOG NAME: Goldman’s ObservationsDATE: 11/28/2005 07:56:16 PMAt ContractsProf, I blogged on teaching the Academy Chicago Publishers v. Cheever case….
Academy Chicago Publishers v. Cheever, 144 Ill. 2d 24 (1991), is a fun case to teach. John Cheever was a Pulitzer Prize-winner author. After his death, a small publisher entered…
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Louisiana Looks at Four Corners
Article 2046 of the Louisiana Civil Code provides that “When the words of a contract are clear and explicit and lead to no absurd consequences, no further interpretation may be…
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Today in History: November 7
Twenty years ago today, November 7, 1985, the United States Senate confirmed Alex Kozinski to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Kozinski is best known…