By Greg Land | January 2, 2018
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash dismissed a lawsuit claiming a man defrauded FedEx by accessing a corporate shipping account offering discounted rates, then charging third parties higher rates to ship items.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser | January 2, 2018
David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser write discuss 'Princes Point v. Muss Dev.', in which the Court of Appeals found that a prospective purchaser's commencement of an action seeking to rescind an amendment to a purchase agreement one month prior to the last day to close on the purchase did not constitute an unequivocal communication to the seller of the purchaser's intention not to perform. The result is a detour into an area of murky jurisprudence that may prove unsettling to the commercial bar that relies on the certainty of precedent and its application in a way that conforms to the realities of commercial practice.
By Scott E. Mollen | January 2, 2018
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law discusses “Matter of the Home of The Sages of Israel," a case that illustrates the types of disputes which are occurring throughout the country among factions of religious congregations with respect to proposed sales of congregational properties.
By Rachel A. Mongiello | January 1, 2018
New Jersey courts have developed limitations on choice-of-law clauses in employment agreements, in order to prevent employees from losing the valuable protections of state employment statutes.
By Andrew Denney | December 29, 2017
A Massachusetts-based job recruiter said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett should cough up more than $937,000 for bringing the firm a high-profile lateral from Sullivan & Cromwell.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis
By P.J. D'Annunzio | December 29, 2017
The Third Circuit in 2017 decided a landmark civil rights case over a citizen's ability to record police officers in public, a decision that was immediately propelled to the forefront of the most significant legal rulings in the region.
By Lidia Dinkova | December 28, 2017
ADF International says it's owed about $25.8 million for work it did on the Brightline station in downtown Miami.
By Brendan Farrington | December 28, 2017
A Palm Beach circuit judge ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to continue paying the state millions of dollars in settlement money despite selling off…
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | December 27, 2017
Attorney J. Michael Lewis, a Greenwich solo practitioner, has been sued for legal malpractice over his role in an insurance case.
By Lidia Dinkova | December 27, 2017
Fired contractor Tutor Perini Building Corp. says it's owed millions of dollars for work accumulated because Florida East Coast Realty was late turning in project plans but gave no deadline extension.
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