Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
STOPS Enterprises, LLC v. United Medical Equipment Co., 2014 WL 2699723 (N.D. IL 2014), examines how the parties’ course of dealing defines an oral contract and analyzes the account stated remedy in a case involving unpaid invoices for medical transportation services. Under a series of oral agreements, plaintiff would pick up and give rides to the …
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A special thanks to Adam Brandolph (Twitter: @brandolph_trib) of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for alerting me to this one. In In re Estate of Schaab, a Pennsylvania court awarded over $500K in legal fees to a law firm that negotiated the settlement of a planned wrongful death suit on behalf of the parents of a murder …
Integration clauses – also called “merger” clauses – are staples of commercial contracts in diffuse business settings. The Northern District of Illinois recently found that an integration clause in a compensation agreement defeated a futures trader’s claims for unpaid commissions in Colagrossi v. UBS Securities, LLC, 2014 WL 2515131 (N.D.Ill. 2014). The plaintiff alleged that in 2005, he …
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