Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Contracts : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration |
| Title: | GREEN TREE FIN. CORP. v. BAZZLE |
| Date: | 06/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-634 |
| Summary: | An arbitrator must determine whether contracts between a commercial lender and its customers, containing a clause providing for arbitration of all contract-related disputed, forbid class arbitration under South Carolina law. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration |
| Title: | CITIZENS BANK v. ALAFABCO, INC. |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-1295 |
| Summary: | A debt-restructuring agreement had a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce to make an arbitration provision in that agreement enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts |
| Title: | NAT'L PARK HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-196 |
| Summary: | A National Park Service regulation, purporting to render the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 inapplicable to contracts entered into by concessioners doing business in national parks, is a general policy statement. A challenge to that regulation is not yet ripe for judicial resolution, for lack of a "hardship" showing. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law, Remedies |
| Title: | PACIFICARE HEALTH SYS., INC. v. BOOK |
| Date: | 04/07/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-215 |
| Summary: | Physicians' claims that managed-health-care organizations violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) can be compelled to arbitration. Questions as to remedial provisions in an arbitration agreement and availability of RICO treble damages are premature. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | ARCHER v. WARNER |
| Date: | 03/31/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1418 |
| Summary: | A debt for money promised in a settlement agreement accompanied by the release of underlying tort claims can amount to a debt for money obtained by fraud, within the terms of the Bankruptcy Code's non-dischargeability statute, 11 U.S.C. section 523(a)(2)(A). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Contracts, Indian Law, Oil & Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | US v. NAVAJO NATION |
| Date: | 03/04/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1375 |
| Summary: | An Indian tribe's claim for compensation from the federal government, for alleged breach of trust in approval of coal lease amendments negotiated by the Tribe and a private lessee, fails as it does not derive from any liability-imposing provision of the Indian Mineral Leasing Act of 1938 or its implementing regulations. |