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Where plaintiffs sued a title company claiming negligence and breach of the terms of the parties’ escrow agreement based on the title company’s issuance of a check to a trustee in her personal capacity rather than as a trustee upon ...

Tagged with: contracts Duty Of Care

Where a trial court found that an installer of fire protection systems materially breached an agreement with a purchaser allowing the purchaser to terminate the contract and the court discharged the purchaser’s remaining payment obligations and charged the cost of ...

Tagged with: contracts Damages Termination

(1)Where a buyer of a recreational vehicle brought claims of breach of express and implied warranty, violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and violation of the state’s Lemon law against the manufacturer, a genuine issue of fact existed regarding the ...

Tagged with: Breach Of Warranty contracts

Income tax; refund action   08-1638 General Mills Inc. & Subsidiaries, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. U.S., Defendant-Appellant Appeal From: U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota Submitted: Nov. 14, 2008 Filed: Jan. 26, 2009 Before: Judges Wollman, Beam and Benton Opinion ...

Where the Missouri Baptist Convention sued the Windermere Baptist Conference Center, a public benefit corporation, in a dispute over the transfer of a conference and recreational facility, the trial court did not err in finding that the convention was not ...

Where a corporation sued for refunds of corporate income tax to recover the value of deductions for cash distribution redemptive dividends, the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the corporation because the deduction is barred by Section 162(k)(1), ...

Investment losses; undisclosed waiver   08-1349 Glenn D. Abbotts; Steven Beigel; Alyn Bell; Michael Cetta; Andrew R. Cherna; Richard Cooper; Stewart W. Evey; Timothy J. Hanratty; F. Scott Jackson; Jeffrey Kaufman; Anis Keywood; Gerald Moreland; James T. Reilley; Rick Starr, ...

Where investors failed to present sufficient evidence that an undisclosed waiver in a Common Stock Purchase Agreement was the proximate cause of their investment losses, the district court did not err in holding that the statute of limitations barred the ...

Tagged with: Corporate Equitable Tolling

Where plaintiffs who brought a securities fraud class action against Centene Corporation and several officers failed to show that the defendants had misrepresented a material fact or acted with scienter, the district court properly dismissed the action under the elevated ...

Tagged with: Centene corporate law securities fraud