Litigation

URI v. Ram Post-Trial Opinion: No Specific Performance
URI v. Ram Post-Trial Opinion: No Specific Performance On Friday, in this post-trial opinion, Chancellor Chandler holds that URI cannot compel specific performance of its merger agreement with the RAM entities, which are acquisition subsidiaries for Cerberus...

More on URI's Request for Specific Performance
More on URI's Request for Specific Performance Back on Monday, I blogged some analysis from Kevin Miller of Alston & Bird about why deference is not generally appropriate when granting extraordinary permanent relief such as specific performance...

Tennessee Court Orders Specific Performance to Complete Acquisition
Tennessee Court Orders Specific Performance to Complete Acquisition Last week - just after a Delaware court denied specific performance in the Cerberus–United Rentals decision - an opposite conclusion was found in Genesco v...

Shakespeare and Specific Performance
Mark Fortier, University of Guelph, has published "Shakespeare and Specific Performance," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities...

Oman on Specific Performance & the 13th Amendment
Nathan B. Oman (William & Mary Law School) has posted Specific Performance and the Thirteenth Amendment on SSRN...

Oman on Specific Performance and the Thirteenth Amendment
Nathan Oman (William & Mary) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Minnesota L...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

When a buyer signs a agreement for the sale of property and then decides to back out after they have signed the escrow papers and accepted the keys to the property can they leagally not tender the check for the purchase
This is a two part case. First there should have been a purchase contract that d...

How to close probate if a beneficiary can not be contacted to confirm receipt of inheritance?
I believe that you would be clear if you post a notice in the local paper. Check...

If a vendor gives a business a discount can they take it back?
First of all,

It all depend on your contract.
You must check ...

Can I take action acgainst my exmployer for a sexual comment made by my boss?
Yes,

There is a law that protects "whistle-blowers" from...

Health Canada
Issues Warning for Specific-Formula Arthro-Ace

Medtronic
Recalls Specific Lots of Paradigm Quick-Set Infusion Sets

Retirement Home Unkempt
Village and Developer pay $40 million in class action lawsuit.

Access Roads
Developer Bob Honts agrees to $250,000 property development settlement.

Developer Investment
Raffaello Follieri agrees to $12 million joint venture settlement.

Settlement Proposed in Class Action Against Facebook
Facebook will Close Beacon in Proposed Settlement