Commercial Contracts
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A Brazilian pension fund asked a New York state court Wednesday to award it more than $66 million it says it’s owed under a judgment it secured in the South American country against a home appliance distributor that allegedly defaulted on a line of credit… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Rap mogul Kanye West and his longtime publisher, EMI, have tentatively agreed to a deal to resolve West’s claims that EMI locked him into a “lopsided” business arrangement barred by California labor code, West told a Golden State federal court Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Writers Guild of America will wage its legal battle against several major talent agencies in federal court, dropping a state-level suit and filing counterclaims on Monday in federal suits brought by the talent shops over the contested practice of agents collecting payments from pairing TV writers with studios… Read this piece in its entirety
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A New York federal court on Tuesday threw out a case in which a Luxembourg-based construction company sought to force a pair of General Electric units to arbitrate a $500 million dispute involving liquefied natural gas plants, saying the GE units are already engaged in arbitration to contest the arbitrability of the case… Read this
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Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth has accused a California-based farming corporation of allegedly misusing a $1.6 million deposit and killing “millions of dollars” worth of hemp plants, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 