The respondent City of Columbia sought to extract groundwater from wells to supply its growing population. The landowners, a group of farmers, filed a petition for declaratory judgment and injunction, requesting the trial court to declare their rights...

As assignee of a promissory note secured by a mortgage deed of a home in Harpswell, he sought to foreclose due to the Defendant's failure to pay any portion of the $64,000 long since overdue him on the promissory note. Defendant, Shirley C. Greeley...

Plaintiff Hoover's Hatchery filed a lawsuit against defendant Utgaard's Hatchery for breach of contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, promissory estoppel, and equitable estoppel. The trial court dismissed the fraud claim and concluded that...

Appellee Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California (“CLVT”) was established by an agreement between construction industry employer associations and a labor union to provide a mechanism for administering the provisions of...

Bert Johnson, doing business as Johnson Farms, and Hal Anderson entered into an oral cattle-sharing contract in December 1997. Approximately one month later, they memorialized the oral contract in written form. Under the written instrument, Anderson agreed...

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GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc. United States District Court for the District of Delaware July 12, 2016, Decided; July 12, 2016, Filed Civil Action No. 12-1318-LPS Opinion MEMORANDUM OPINION /s/ Leonard P. Stark STARK, U.S. District Judge : Pending...