Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the District Court’s trial verdict in favor of some Trump-controlled entities in a consumer fraud suit filed by a purchaser of some Trump Tower condominium units. In Goldberg v. 401 North Wabash Investor, LLC, 2014 WL 2579939 (7th Cir. 2014), an eighty-something real estate investor sued on a bait-and-switch theory after a condominium …
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In Al Maha Trading v. Darley, 2014 WL 2459674 (N.D. Ill. 2014), the plaintiff brought fraud and civil conspiracy claims in connection with a fire truck sales contract. The plaintiff, a Saudi Arabia-based fire and rescue services company, ordered six fire trucks and related equipment from the Illinois-based defendant. The plaintiff claimed the defendant submitted inflated invoices for …
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Three agency law issues that I regularly encounter in commercial litigation practice are (1) authority, (2) ratification and (3) a contract that doesn’t identify a valid entity. The authority question posed is whether an individual – typically a company employee or independent contractor – can bind the company by the individual’s conduct. Ratification applies where a corporate principal accepts the benefits …
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