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Panel Upholds $42M Judgment Against Safeway for Online Markups

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling that supported customers' reading of an ambiguously worded product pricing clause in an agreement governing online grocery sales.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Sycamore Restaurant Group, LLC v. Stampfi Hartke Assoc., LLC, PICS Case No. 17-1198 (Pa. Super. July 12, 2017) Lazarus, J. (15 pages).

Trial court properly found architectural firm liable only for rent and construction loan interest in action by restaurant asserting breach of an architectural and engineering services contract because trial court properly excluded change request documents since those documents were not modifications to the contract and were not proper evidence of rock removal and dewatering costs as they were created by a third party and there was no evidence to corroborate the authenticity of the documents. Affirmed.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

The Beer Lobby Taps Treasury's Deregulatory Push, Wells Fargo Faces New Scrutiny: Weekly Roundup

Cheers: Here's what the Beer Institute wants on the deregulatory front. Wells Fargo faces fresh scrutiny over a car insurance scheme. Microsoft is embracing alternative fee arrangements. And Trump's pick for HHS general counsel admits he has a "big mouth." This is a weekly roundup from ALM publications and around the web.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Montano v. Barnaby's of America, PICS Case No. 17-1102 (C.P. Philadelphia Nov. 23, 2016) New, J. (8 pages).

A plaintiff engaged in improper forum shopping where she named defendants who were not proper parties to the action for the purpose of manipulating the venue rules to create venue where it did not properly exist. The court ordered the matter to be transferred to another county where venue was appropriate.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Slack' Sandwich Pack Subject of Class Action Against Pret A Manger

For one patron to one of Manhattan's many Pret A Manger sandwich shops, a few inches of empty space in the packaging for the chain's wraps may be worth millions.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Beachcomber Management Crystal Cove, LLC v. Superior Court (Salisbury)

C.A. 4th; G054078 The Fourth Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate. The court held that the trial court erred in failing to assess…
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New York Law Journal

O.F.I. Imports Inc. v. General Electric Capital Corp.

Overpayment for Assets, Lesser Borrowing Base Both Stem From Same Claims About Firm's Value
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court: Liquor License Transfer Denials Immediately Appealable

A business can still appeal directly from a local government's denial of an intermunicipal liquor license transfer, despite the Pennsylvania Liquor Code's prohibition on appeals, a sharply divided Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled in a published opinion.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

E. Frank Hopkins Seafood, Co., Inc. v. Olizi, PICS Case No. 17-1116 (E.D. Pa. June 15, 2017) Joyner, J. (31 pages).

Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's claims of tortious interference with contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, conversion, and civil conspiracy based on plaintiff's former employee setting up his own business and soliciting plaintiff's customers using confidential information he obtained while working for plaintiff. Motion dismissed.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Is Washington, DC, the Nation's Next 'Food Court'?

A nonprofit group represented by a longtime plaintiffs lawyer is challenging Mott's applesauce in a case that could be a sign of things to come.
5 minute read

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