Yesterday, news outlets worldwide were reporting about the lawsuit that Chrysler filed last week seeking to compel Daimler to continue supplying them with components that are critical to completing the manufacture of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chrysler 300 models. At the same time, the news reports indicated that shipments had not stopped as yet. [...]
Earlier this year, in Abra Construction Corp. v. 112 Duane Associates, LLC., New York’s Appellate Division, First Department sent a clear reminder to contractors who have been terminated from the construction projects they had been working on: do not exaggerate your mechanics’ lien (since the trial court concluded that the plaintiff had intentionally exaggerated its [...]
The fact pattern is all too familiar: D enters into a contract with small business P to jointly develop certain products, and then not only breaches the contract with P, but then breaches his fiduciary duty to P and uses the proprietary information that he gained during their alliance to try and poach P’s proprietary [...]
After on-line retail giant Amazon remotely deleted electronic copies of George Orwell’s “1984″ that they had previously sold to consumers, who then downloaded the eBooks onto Amazon’s Kindles, two of those users have now brought a consumer class action complaint against on-line retail giant Amazon, claiming that Amazon’s acts violated a series of state and [...]