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  Where city defendants sued a professional football team, team owners and the league in an action arising from the team’s relocation, and the defendants moved to compel arbitration, a American Arbitration Association rule from 2003 did not provide clear ...

Tagged with: Arbitration contracts Contractual Intent

On remand, the district court reconsidered plaintiff’s unjust enrichment claim against defendant. The district court again denied the claim, ruling that, although plaintiff had conferred a benefit upon defendant, it would not be inequitable for defendant to retain that benefit ...

Tagged with: Contract Law Earned Benefit Equitable Retention of Benefit unjust enrichment

Plaintiff acquired a family of smaller companies, with their president staying on to run the companies; the president’s wife would separately negotiate to buy back two of the acquired companies. When negotiations for the buy-back broke down, the president left ...

Tagged with: Contract Law Corporate Acquisition Misappropriation of IP Preliminary Injunction

  Where a limited liability company, which entered into a contract for the sale of farmland, challenged a trial court’s refusal to grant specific performance, the company’s only evidence that it was ready, willing and able to perform the contracts ...

Tagged with: contracts Property Sale Specific Performance

Defendant alleged that he was defrauded by his friend, who convinced defendant to sign a guaranty for a company defendant believed he co-owned with his friend, which burdened defendant with millions in debt his friend could not repay. Defendant alleged ...

Tagged with: Chain of Title contracts fraud Guaranty Agreement

Where in a dispute arising from the renovation of apartment buildings, a general contractor challenged a judgment finding it liable for breach of contract, and the subcontractor challenged a judgment against it on its equitable claims, sufficient evidence supported most ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Construction Contract contracts Equitable Claims

Where a defendant in a breach-of-contract case challenged the grant of summary judgment against him, the record supported the finding that the defendant was liable for fraudulent and negligent representation and the breach of multiple contracts, and the district court ...

Tagged with: Contract Law Discovery Sanctions Fraudulent Misrepresentation

  Plaintiff appealed the order of the district court confirming an arbitration award in favor of defendants and dismissing plaintiff’s application to vacate the award. Where the court found no clear error of fact or other error of law by ...

Tagged with: arbitration award Breach contracts Res Judicata

Where a defendant who challenged the revocation of his supervised release argued that he was deprived of the right to confrontation by the admission of videos and transcripts of police interrogations in his revocation hearing, the witnesses did not appear ...

Tagged with: Admission Criminal Law Interrogation police transcripts

Where a stainless-steel manufacturer challenged the judgment against it in a dispute that arose from a contract for the installation of an industrial egg dryer, the judgment is affirmed because the district court applied the proper legal standard, and the ...

Tagged with: Contract Law Contract Termination Lost-Profits Determination

Where a former employee challenged a district court’s summary-judgment order and the injunctive relief granted in a dispute over the parties’ non-compete agreement, the injunction expired while the appeal was pending, and nothing remained to be resolved between the parties, ...

Tagged with: contracts Enforceability mootness Non-Compete Agreement