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Administrative: Tax- Innocent-Spouse Relief- Equitable Relief
Plaintiff filed suit to appeal the commissioner of internal revenue’s denial of plaintiff’s request for innocent-spouse relief. The tax court subsequently declined to grant plaintiff equitable relief. Where the tax court did not abuse its discretion in denying equitable relief to plaintiff, the court affirmed the tax court’s ruling. Judgment is affirmed. Benson v. Commissioner […]
Corporate Law: Breach of Fiduciary Duty-Shareholder Oppression-Equitable Relief
Where plaintiff brought an action for breach of fiduciary duty and for dissolution of the company or other equitable relief after she was removed as president and treasurer and her employment terminated, the judgments awarding damages and equitable relief to the plaintiff are affirmed because the defendants’ affirmative defenses failed, and the trial court did […]
Negligence : Joint Venture Contract – Negligent Misrepresentation – Equitable Relief
Lonesome Dove Petroleum, Inc. v. Holt (MLW No. 71644/Case No. 16-3467 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)
ERISA : Unpaid Benefits – Claim For Premiums – Equitable Relief
Ibson v. United Healthcare Services, Inc. (MLW No. 71244/Case No. 16-3260 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)
Real Property : Fence Dispute – Equitable Relief – Attorney’s Fees
Ferguson v. Ewing (MLW No. 66719/Case No. WD76487 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Newton, J.)
Employer – Employee : Failure To Promote – Race Discrimination – Equitable Relief
Coyle v. City of St. Louis (MLW No. 65487/Case No. ED97509 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Cohen, J.)
Real Property: Foreclosure Sale – Equitable Relief – Rescission
Bank of New York v. Yonts (MLW No. 64438/SD31947 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.)
Real Property: Foreclosure Sale – Bidding Error – Equitable Relief
Where a mortgage company sought equitable relief after it inadvertently extinguished the indebtedness of a debtor, precluding enforcement of the additional collateral securing its note, when it made a “full credit bid” at a foreclosure sale, the trial court did not err in declining to set aside the foreclosure sale to correct the mortgage company’s […]
Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District: Real property
Special assessments; equitable relief  ED90864 Lake Wauwanoka Inc., Respondent, v. John Anton, et al., Appellants Appeal From: Jefferson County Circuit Court, Judge Mark T. Stoll Handdown Date: 1/27/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Kenneth M. Romines Opinion Vote: Judges Baker and Norton concur  Introduction Appellant lot owners appeal the judgment of the Circuit Court of […]
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