A company that leased photocopier machines to a printing company prevailed on a motion for summary judgment in a breach of contract claim brought by the business leasing the copy machines. In M&B Graphics, Inc. v. Toshiba Business Solutions (USA), Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…
Non-compete agreements are increasingly more common in today’s competitive business environment. Non-compete agreements, confidentiality and other restrictive covenants are a great tool for protecting trade secrets, customer lists, and other sensitive information, but only if the agreement is enforceable in a court of law. The issue of enforceability of non-compete…
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A defendant’s failure to deny allegations in a responsive pleading to a complaint can serve as an admission of those allegations. In Kule-Rubin, et al v. Bahari Group, Limited, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the plaintiffs’ motion for judgment on the pleadings as…
The Supreme Court in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds has recently agreed to decide on whether federal courts in certifying a securities class must decide in order to certify the class whether the fact of damages claims regarding a “fraud on the market” have merit or…
It was announced on September 11, 2012 that the Internal Revenue Service awarded $104 million to whistleblower Bradley C. Birkenfeld for his role in providing information regarding an illegal offshore banking scheme by his employer, UBS. Not only is this the first major award by the IRS since its whistleblower…
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced its first award under the SEC’s Whistleblower Program on August 21, 2012. The whistleblower will receive nearly $50,000, which represents 30 percent of the amount collected thus far in an SEC enforcement action. The SEC Whistleblower Program, which has been in effect for…
In The Business Store v. Mail Boxes Etc., the District Court for the District of New Jersey considered the effect of a “forum selection clause” in a business dispute between companies from different states, finding that these clauses are not always enforceable. In 2003, Plaintiff The Business Store, Inc., a…
In Classic Business Corporation v. Equilon Enterprises, LLC., the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois explains that while the state’s consumer fraud and deceptive business practice law is an important weapon in combating shady business operations, it is intended to protect private consumers rather than business entities. Plaintiffs,…