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California federal court allows non-signatory to arbitration agreement to compel arbitration in trade secrets dispute

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

A federal district court in the Northern District of California recently found that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement may enforce that

Force majeure in tumultuous times: impracticability as the new impossibility

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2012

Force majeure clauses excuse a party from performance if some unforeseen event beyond its control prevents performance of its contractual obligations

Arbitration clause incorporated by reference in contract is enforceable

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

Granting a motion to dismiss a putative class action in favor of arbitration in Wendrovsky v. Chase Paymentech,No. 12-Civ.-00704 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 15

California Supreme Court grants review in consumer arbitration decision, Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Company

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2012

Yesterday, March 21, the California Supreme Court granted review in Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Company, previously cited at (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 74

The only four good reasons to put arbitration in your contract

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 4 2013

Let's say you are considering updating your form contract, or you are in the midst of negotiating a new contract with someone. Should you include

How to lose $4 million when firing an executive what happens when it all goes wrong?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2011

I usually work as a defense attorney

Equitable estoppel cannot compel arbitration against non-signatories where claims were based on statute and not contract

  • Jorden Burt LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

In a putative class anti-trust action brought by retail grocers against wholesale grocers, a divided panel of the Eighth Circuit recently reversed

More failed boilerplate - Georgia rejects arbitration clause for LLC dissolution dispute

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2011

I recently blogged about Gordon v. Kuzara, a Montana Supreme Court decision that refused to enforce an LLC agreement’s arbitration clause in a dissolution dispute

There can only be one prevailing party under Civil Code Section 1717

  • Barger & Wolen LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2012

In Frog Creek Partners LLC v. Vance Brown Inc., 2012 DJDAR 6905 (2012), the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District decided a novel prevailing party case under Civil Code Section 1717

SOC-SMG, Inc. v. Day & Zimmerman, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 5375-VCS (September 15, 2010)

  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2010

In this case, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion for several forms of relief, including an orderdisqualifying the opposing party's counsel in arbitration and terminating all the opposing party's claims anddefenses in arbitration