/commercialcontracts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Commercial Contracts Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:04:53 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372520?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372520 An Oregon distillery has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its challenge of a National Labor Relations Board decision that dinged the liquor maker for unfair labor practices, saying clarity was needed for a legal standard that the distillery says has allowed NLRB decisions to escape judicial review. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:20 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371692?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371692 Minority shareholders in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holding say they are not the ones stopping an arbitral award from being enforced, and have tried to comply with the court's orders but are "caught in the cross-hairs of a personal vendetta." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:03:46 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372041?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372041 In the latest legal skirmish between former law partners Andrew Garza and Ryan McKeen following the dissolution of Connecticut Trial Firm LLC, Garza's new firm on Friday asked a Connecticut state court to pause unfair trade practices claims brought against it by McKeen's new firm, arguing that the complaint is an attempt to circumvent arbitration stays. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:01:44 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371762?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371762 Lamborghini has told a Texas federal court that a case brought by an Italian auto racing engineering firm alleging the sports carmaker stole steering wheel trade secrets is best left to Italian courts and is part of a long-running business dispute in that country. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:45:07 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372395?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372395 Consumers urged a Washington federal judge on Friday to certify a class of nearly 300 million in a sweeping antitrust case against Amazon, contending they all paid inflated prices because the e-commerce giant forced an "anti-discount policy" on merchants and monitored marketplace rates to ensure compliance. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:57:27 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371209?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371209 The Ninth and Eleventh circuits in August will hear from employers fighting trial court decisions refusing to kick proposed class actions alleging ERISA violations into individual arbitration. Here's a look at four coming oral argument sessions that should be on benefits lawyers' radar. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:40:38 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372314?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372314 A property investment company can raise nearly none of its claims against its insurer for hailstorm damage from 2019 and 2023, a North Carolina federal court ruled, finding that because claims concerning the 2019 storm are time-barred, those corresponding documents can't support much of the 2023 claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:38:54 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372192 A cannabis company in the process of going out of business cannot rely on a state court receivership to shield it from creditors in other states, and the owners of shuttered Norwood Hospital can't renew an expired permit issued to bankrupt Steward Health. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:57:41 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372177?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372177 An Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. subsidiary breached a contract by withholding $50 million owed to a patent insurance and underwriting venture under first-year terms of a three-year merger and earnout deal, a Delaware vice chancellor has found. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:47:22 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372205?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372205 A Michigan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two students claiming their Michigan State University professor should be liable for charging them a $99 course fee that she used to fund her political activism, saying the students were given a refund and the fee was not "compelled speech." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:30:27 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372266?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372266 Cargill Inc. accused a Chubb unit of failing to cover contaminated batches of ice cream and other food products that caused roughly $170 million in losses, telling a Pennsylvania state court that though the unit "may" rely on a pollution exclusion, an exception in the provision would restore coverage. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:18:34 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371743?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371743 An Asheville brewery has whittled down a live music operator's lawsuit over their sunk partnership to form an entertainment venue after a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled the pair had no fiduciary relationship. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:39:07 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2372126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2372126 This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:17:31 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371860 A California state judge added $195 million in exemplary damages to a $605 million trade secrets verdict against oil giant Phillips 66 following its "abusive behavior" toward startup and onetime acquisition target Propel Fuels. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:58:21 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371958?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371958 A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld an Ohio federal court's decision finding that a trade union, three trustees of a union benefit fund, and a fund participant cannot remove two other trustees they accused of self-dealing, saying they failed to show they would face irreparable harm. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:48:00 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371351?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371351 A Kansas office building's property insurer has no duty to provide coverage for roughly $1.75 million in repairs over a broken water pipe, the Tenth Circuit ruled, rejecting the building owner's argument that an exception in one exclusion conflicted with a separate exclusion for water damage. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:27:12 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2370863?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2370863 Given the complexity of compliance with nations' overlapping human rights laws, multinational companies need to be cognizant of the evolving approaches to modern slavery transparency, and proposals that could reduce mandatory due diligence and reporting requirements, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:48:19 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371833?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371833 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has asked the Fifth Circuit to uphold its indemnification win against an environmental remediation company in connection with a decade-old Louisiana kickback suit, writing that "one who makes his own bed must lie in it." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:02:02 +0000 /commercialcontracts/articles/2371778?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercialcontracts/articles/2371778 Latham & Watkins LLP expanded its presence in midtown Manhattan by signing a 12-year lease for 12,000 square feet on two whole floors in RXR's building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, RXR announced Thursday.