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The American Lawyer

Billionaire Ex-Client Can Retrieve File From Boies Schiller But Must Put Up $860K

Billionaire Alex Shnaider will be able to collect a client file from his former lawyers at Boies Schiller, but—for now, at least—it'll cost him.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Keker Team Wins Arbitration, Forcing Warriors to Pay for Oracle Arena Renovations

An arbitrator found that the Bay Area's NBA team, which is set to decamp from Oakland to new digs in San Francisco next season, must continue to pay debts incurred in the mid-90s to renovate its current home, Oracle Arena.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Cincinnati Zoo Sues for Return of Koko's Companion

The Cincinnati Zoo loaned the male gorilla Ndume to The Gorilla Foundation in 1991 in hopes of breeding him with Koko, the Western Lowland Gorilla famous for learning sign language. Since Koko died in June, the zoo claims the Redwood City-based animal sanctuary has reneged on an agreement to return Ndume.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Russian Telecom Sues Hewlett Packard Enterprise Over 'Cascading Catastrophic Failures' in Network Upgrade

"At no time did HPE disclose that it would be largely building the system for MegaFon from scratch. Nor did HPE disclose that it had never previously built such a system," the Russian company's lawyers at Winston & Strawn wrote. "Had MegaFon known the truth, it would not have selected HPE."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

In TV Rights Agreements, Attention Needs to be Paid to Holdback, Reversion, and Derivative Works Provisions

Entertainment Law columnists Michael I. Rudell and Neil J. Rosini write: Much press is given to the compensation aspects of the creators' agreements with exhibitors, but attention also should be paid to the extent and duration of the exhibitor's exclusivity in the property in which rights are being acquired, including holdback provisions, reversion of rights, and the right to produce derivative spinoffs, sequels and other derivative works.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Losing the Right to Arbitrate by Waiving the Right to Arbitrate

Bob had his client's orders: “Don't make life easy for the other side. Make them earn their right to arbitrate their claims.” This looked like an easy assignment because Bob thought he had valid grounds to be a stickler here.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Attorneys Win Jurisdictional Row Over $2.7 Million Bank Account

Florida's Third District Court of Appeal ruled that a Miami-Dade trial court erred in its decision to deny a Brazilian bank representative's motion to dismiss a fraud complaint in a case that hinged on forum selection.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Jenny Craig Arbitration Agreement Voided for Failure to Designate Forum, Process

“The process is important because the rights associated with arbitration forums differ depending on which is chosen, or how the arbitral process is defined,” Judge Douglas Fasciale wrote. “Here, the agreement ignored the subject altogether.”
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Del. Judge Upholds $4M Award Over Spacecraft Tech Contract

U.S. District Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware on Monday declined to roll back the Jan. 12 verdict, which awarded Intuitive Machines cash and equity in Moon Express Inc. as a result of Moon Express' failure to complete work on the software underpinning its project.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Former Big Apple Circus Exec Claims Firing Was Breach of Contract

Larry Solheim claims he used his standing in the circus world to help he and a group of investors win the bid to take over the failing Big Apple Circus—only to have them fire him and his wife not long after with no prior warning.
4 minute read

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