New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Stephen L. Brodsky | January 4, 2018
Stephen L. Brodsky writes: When will an “agreement to agree” be enforceable, and when can you require another party to negotiate with you? New York's federal courts provide a legal framework that answers both of these questions.
By Ben Seal | January 4, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review whether a plaintiff can circumvent a state agency's right to enforce a statute by seeking to do so through common-law damages claims.
By Ben Hancock | January 3, 2018
After facing allegations from Uber that it nurtured online advertising fraud to extract millions of dollars, the global advertising firm Fetch Media Ltd. has fired back with a new lawsuit that accuses Uber of forum-shopping and evading its bills.
By Monika Mesa | January 3, 2018
In the lawsuit, Benjamin Lopatin alleges that former partners Joshua Eggnatz and Michael Pascucci failed to give him his fair share of firm earnings.
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.
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