The key question facing the Texas Supreme Court in Zachry Construction v. Port of Houston, 2014 WL 4472616 (TX 2014) was whether a contract’s no-delay-damages (NDD) term can be relied on by a party who intentionally prevents the other side’s performance. The answer: “no.” The contract involved a $63M contract to construct a wharf big enough …
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Is Discharging Student Loan Debt In Bankruptcy Getting Easier? (Illinois Bar Journal Article: November 2014)
Student Loan BK Discharge Article (November 2014)
Law School Grads’ Fraud Suit Against Alma Mater Dismissed (Part II of II)
(photocredit: Google Images; www.nationaljurist.com (visited 11.13.14)) The former law students’ suit also failed in Phillips v. DePaul University, 2014 IL App (1st) 122817, because they couldn’t establish proximate cause or compensable damages under Illinois law. The plaintiffs claimed they were economically harmed by their reliance on DePaul’s deceptive employment data. They said this information was …
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