A jury ultimately sided with Maxus Metropolitan, a multimillion-dollar apartment complex, issuing $27.3 million in damages and $546,905 for vexatious refusal to pay against Travelers Insurance Co. The district court awarded Maxus pre-judgment interest for nearly $6.5 million.       

“The undisputed facts support multiple factors contributed to Magnitude 7’s decision to curtail operations. Under these circumstances, the court finds that the closing of the Marston plant was an indirect result of the weather event at issue. As such, the natural disaster exception does not apply, but the ‘unforeseeable business circumstance’ exception may apply,” U.S.

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“While this is far from model case management, given this court’s preference for resolving cases on their merits, the relative swiftness of the dismissal here, and our insistence on doing justice over expediting dockets, these three actions constituted sufficient work to avoid dismissing Murphy’s cause of action for failure to prosecute,” said Judge Philip M.

Richard Choi had called Storehouse In a Box’s allegations unfounded, saying it was “trying to weaponize its own document and data management deficiencies” to obtain his private files.       

“Anytime I have a bank client who’s looking to sell, credit unions are now routinely part of the discussion,” said Anton Moch, a shareholder of Winthrop & Weinstine in Minneapolis.       

“It’s difficult for a judge to say, I did it wrong and my colleagues are doing it wrong, and I’m going to call everybody out, including myself,’” said IP law professor Eric Goldman.       

“Even though the court ultimately decided against Giovannelli, he reasonably argued that his publicity act claim was not time-barred because, in his view, the discovery rule applied and extended the statute of limitations for his claim. Thus, Giovannelli’s arguments contesting the statute of limitations defense were not frivolous; rather, they were founded upon a reasonable

Emmanuel Ayuk is succeeding Christine Castellano, who retired this spring after 35 years as a lawyer.       

“Granting summary judgment based on such ‘vague and conclusory’ concerns, without more, runs the risk of constitutionalizing a heckler’s veto. Enough outsider complaints could prevent government employees from speaking on any controversial subject, even on their own personal time. And all without a showing of how it actually affected the government’s ability to deliver ‘public