Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Contracts : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts |
| Title: | Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1126 |
| Summary: | Stating a claim under section 1 of the Sherman Act requires a complaint with enough factual matter (taken as true) to suggest that an agreement was made. An allegation of parallel conduct and a bare assertion of conspiracy will not suffice. Under such plausibility standard, plaintiffs' putative class action at hand should be dismissed as it alleged only that major telecommunications providers engaged in certain parallel conduct unfavorable to competition, and did not make any independent allegation of actual agreement among the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers for purposes of a conspiracy in restraint of trade. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. of Am. v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co. |
| Date: | 03/20/07 |
| Case Number: | 05–1429 |
| Summary: | Federal bankruptcy law does not disallow contract-based claims for attorney's fees based solely on the fact that the fees were incurred litigating bankruptcy law issues. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Manufacturing, Patent |
| Title: | MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. |
| Date: | 01/09/07 |
| Case Number: | 05–608 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of a drug manufacturer's patent and contract declaratory judgment action, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, is reversed where petitioner was not required, insofar as Article III is concerned, to break or terminate its 1997 license agreement before seeking a declaratory judgment in federal court that the underlying patent was invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. |