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22 Oct 2018, 7:02 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the trial court erred in awarding $8.7 million in attorneys’ fees in a class action settlement because it did not treat $20 credits issued as part of the settlement as “coupons” under the Class… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 9:06 am by Morse, Barnes-Brown Pendleton
MBBP Attorney Jeffrey Steele will be a panelist on Financing and Partnering for Emerging Business at the 5th Annual Conference on Clean Energy to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, November 12–13. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 7:31 am by Jeffrey Karek
The Illinois Appellate Court for the First District recently held that the trial court correctly affirmed a judicial sale and denied a motion to reconsider where an intervenor and alleged owner of the property claimed the mortgage was wiped out by the death of the sole mortgagor, who was only a joint tenant in the Read more → Jeffrey Karek [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 1:18 pm by Legal Profession Prof
Oral argument was held today before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Associate Judges Deahl and Howard and Senior Judge Glickman) concerning Jeffrey Clark's assertion of his Fifth Amendment rights and claim that the court lacks jurisdiction to discipline... [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 5:52 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a plaintiff’s oral testimony that a $100 payment was demanded of her in violation of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) was insufficient to withstand summary judgment where the debt collector defendant… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 9:27 am by Jeffrey Karek
In determining the legal standard for holding a creditor in civil contempt for attempting to collect a debt in violation of a bankruptcy discharge order, the Supreme Court of the United States adopted an “objectively reasonable” standard, and held that a court may hold a… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 7:52 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, on an issue of first impression at the federal appellate level, recently held that the Merrill doctrine – which prevents federal government instrumentalities from being bound by the unauthorized acts of their agents – applies to… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
20 Aug 2018, 8:13 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that, unless the parties to a class action settlement agreement expressly agree otherwise, class settlement agreements should not be read to bar objectors from requesting fees for their efforts in adding value to a… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 7:24 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that, because a complaint’s sole federal claim under the Garn-St. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 12:40 pm by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a recent change to Ohio law involving notice of a defective lien had no bearing on a bankruptcy trustee’s ability to avoid the defective lien because such notice is irrelevant to a trustee’s status… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 8:00 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that where a company provided a consumer with a receipt that displayed her entire 16-digit credit card number and credit card expiration date in violation of the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 7:59 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that merely requiring extrinsic evidence to interpret a provision of a form contract does not render class certification improper, and that absent a more thorough explanation of its reasoning from the trial court, it could… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 7:52 am by Jeffrey Karek
The Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District, recently held that a forum selection clause in favor of a New York forum was unenforceable where the clause included a predispute jury trial waiver, which is unenforceable under California law but which… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 7:22 am by Jeffrey Karek
Circuit held recently that plaintiffs failed to offer sufficient evidence to create a genuine dispute of fact as to their accounting and fraudulent concealment claims against a bank based on the disappearance of funds from a savings… Jeffrey Karek [read post]
23 May 2018, 3:41 pm by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that where a mortgagee rescinded a notice of intent to accelerate and then filed a foreclosure action without first issuing a new notice of intent to accelerate, it failed to meet its burden to show clear and unequivocal notice of intent to accelerate prior to Read more → Jeffrey Karek [read post]