Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
Today’s reading list highlights some recent civil and criminal cases from State and Federal jurisdictions across the country that address the admissibility of business records (with some public records and ‘residual’ rule cases sprinkled in) in diffuse fact settings. The cases below examine evidentiary issues involving documents that range from the clandestine (top-secret State Department …
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Twin contract law axioms include (1) a quasi-contract claim (i.e. quantum meruit) cannot co-exist with one for breach of express contract, and (2) to recover for contract “extras” or out-of-scope work, a plaintiff must show the extra work was necessary through no fault of its own. While easily parroted, the two principles can prove difficult …
A law firm’s failure to scrutinize its client’s transfer of property to a land trust backfired in Radiance v. Accurate Steel, 2018 WL 1394036. The case presents a priority fight between the plaintiff judgment creditor and the law firm who defended the debtor in post-judgment proceedings. The Relevant Chronology August 2013 – Defendant debtor transferred …
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