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Case of the Day: Midbrook Flowerbulbs Holland v. Holland America Bulb Farms
The case of the day is Midbrook Flowerbulbs Holland BV v. Holland America Bulb Farms, Inc. (W.D. Wash. 2014). Midbrook was a Dutch company that sold flower bulbs to Holland America. When a dispute arose, the parties stopped doing business in May 2000, and Midbrook later claimed that Holland Farms had failed to pay it……
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Case of the Day: AHAB v. Standard Chartered Bank
I love the case of the day, Ahmad Hamad Al Gosaibi & Bros. v. Standard Chartered Bank (D.C. 2014), because it is pretty much exactly like the case from a few days ago, Standard Chartered Bank v. Ahmad Hamad Al Gosaibi & Bros. (Pa. Super. Ct. 2014), but it comes to precisely the opposite conclusion.
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Case of the Day: Derr v. Swarek
The case of the day is Derr v. Swarek (5th Cir. 2014). This was the appeal of the case of the day from Sept. 12, 2013. The basic facts: Thomas L. Swarek and Thomas A. Swarek sued Herman Derr in the Issqquena County, Mississippi chancery court seeking specific performance of a purchase and sale agreement……
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Case of the Day: Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd. v. Chang
The case of the day is Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd. v. Chang (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). The bank sued Kung Da Chang in Hong Kong for failure to pay on a revolving multi-currency loan Chang had obtained in 2008 in order to facilitate the transfer of investments from the Bank of East Asia to the……
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Case of the Day: DeJoria v. Maghreb Petroleum Exploration
The case of the day is DeJoria v. Maghreb Petroleum Exploration S.A. (W.D. Tex. 2014). John Paul DeJoria and Maghreb Petroleum Exploration were partners in a Moroccan oil venture. In 2002, MPE sued DeJoria in Morocco, alleging that DeJoria had fraudulently misrepresented the value of his business in order to induce MPE to invest in……