Yahoo! couldn’t enforce online forum selection clause 
Published: May 8, 2013
Tags: contracts, e-mail, forum selection clause, Yahoo!
Yahoo! could not enforce an online forum selection clause accepted when a user opened an e-mail account, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Contract enforceable despite party’s mental incapacity
Published: May 6, 2013
Tags: contracts, landlord-tenant, leases, mental incapacity
Tenants may enforce a lease agreement that their former landlord signed when she was mentally incapacitated, the en banc D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled.
Home inspector could limit liability
Published: April 3, 2013
Tags: consumer protection, contracts, limitation of liability
A home inspector could enforce a limitation of liability clause in his service agreement, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.
CONTRACTS
Published: April 2, 2013
Tags: contracts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, forum selection clause, U.S. Supreme Court
Should a federal court subject a contractual forum selection clause to a balancing-of-conveniences analysis, even when it designates a specific alternative federal forum?
Court to decide if forum selection clause enforceable
Published: April 2, 2013
Tags: contracts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, forum selection clause, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a federal court should subject a contractual forum selection clause to a balancing-of-conveniences analysis, even when the clause designates a specific alternative federal forum.
Benchmarks: California Supremes update parol evidence rule
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 15, 2013
Tags: consumer protection, contracts, fraud, misrepresentation, parol evidence
The California Supreme Court yesterday made the first significant revision to the state’s parol evidence rule since Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.
In the process, the court helped the case of two property owners who claimed they were defrauded by their lender when they restructured their debt to avoid foreclosure.
Condo purchase contract can’t be revoked
Published: December 27, 2012
Tags: contracts, Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, real estate
The buyers of a luxury condominium unit in New York City could not revoke their purchase agreement on the ground that their developer failed to comply with the disclosure requirements of federal law, the 2nd Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
The next big civil rights case involves … Anna Nicole Smith?
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: December 30, 2010
Tags: Anna Nicole Smith, bankruptcy court, civil rights, contracts, trust and estates
The battle over the fortune of the late Texas tycoon J. Howard Marshall, who married former Playboy playmate and model Anna Nicole Smith shortly before his death, could have a dire and unintended consequence: quashing meritorious civil rights and contract actions.
College to pay $275,000 settlement
By:
Associated Press
Published: October 8, 2010
Tags: contracts, improper conduct, Vermont
Federal prosecutors say Dartmouth College has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle allegations of improper conduct involving the college’s administration of contracts at a veterans’ hospital in Vermont.
Federal jury awards Albuquerque dentist $44M
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: October 16, 2009
Tags: contracts, unfair business practices
A federal jury awarded an Albuquerque, N.M., dentist $44 million after he claimed a rival dental equipment supplier tried to run his startup company out of business.
