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Specific performance
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Harvey & Binnall Insight & News
Applicability of the Specific Performance Remedy
If you have sustained damages in a breach of contract scenario, then — under certain limited circumstances — you may be entitled to equitable relief in the form a specific…
ContractsProf Blog
Want specific performance? Be ready to prove you can afford it
I am gearing up to teach specific performance soon, so this recent case out of New York, Grunbaum v. Nicole Brittany, Ltd., 2015-10155, caught my eye. The relevant facts of…
PropertyProf Blog
Ziff on Specific Performance in Canada
Bruce Ziff (Alberta) has posted Death to Semelhago! (Dalhousie Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In the 1996 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Semelhago v. Paramadevan, Justice…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Interpreting The Right To Specific Performance In A Shareholder Buy-Sell Agreement
I've never thought very hard about the remedy of specific performance. That means ordering a party to a contract to perform its contractual obligations. But the ability of the Court…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Specific Performance Granted Based on Plain Terms of the Parties’ Agreement
In Alliant Techsystems, Inc. v. MidOcean Bushnell Holdings, L.P., C.A. No. 9813-CB (Del. Ch. April 27, 2015), the Court of Chancery, in a Memorandum Opinion, granted Alliant’s motion for judgment on…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Rejects Request for Specific Performance of Oral Agreement
Pulieri v. Boardwalk Properties, LLC, C.A. No. 9886-CB (Del. Ch. Feb. 18, 2015). This Court of Chancery decision provides a primer on specific performance, unjust enrichment, laches and the rule…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Specific performance and other remedies
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Rick Climan and Keith Flaum's videos on negotiating the merger agreement have become something of a regular feature on this blog. I think Keith and Rick do a great job…
ContractsProf Blog
Cross Post from Legally Speaking Ohio on Specific Performance of an Employment Agreement
This is a edited version of a longer post from the Legally Speaking Ohio blog, written by Marianna Brown Bettman (pictured), a law professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she…
ContractsProf Blog
Will Blockchains End the Need for Specific Performance? [File this in: The Future]
An article by Andrew Hinkes at Inside Counsel begins:Imagine a world where specific performance of contracts is no longer a cause of action because the contracts themselves automatically execute the…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Specific Performance of a Personal Services Employment Contract? Cedar Fair, L.P. v. Jacob Falfas
Update: On September 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. Read the analysis of the oral argument here.…