Case Law - Court Cases

The plaintiff sought specific performance related to the sale of a mobile home park and the surrounding land. The trial court denied relief, saying the papers introduced by the plaintiff as a purported real estate contract between the parties did not constitute a valid contract. In fact, the court could not discern the terms of the purported contract. The plaintiff appealed.

Employee mobility between title insurance agencies is not a new trend, but courts continue to scrutinize the actions of companies and their employees in a highly competitive landscape. In fact, recent rulings in a contentious lawsuit between two former competitors in Texas concluded that “the possibility of crippling, or even destroying, a competitor is inherent in a competitive market.”

But what conduct in this situation is lawful? A Texas federal court delivered mixed rulings to parties accused of engaging in unlawful conduct surrounding the departure of former employees of Providence Title Co. to join a competitor, Truly Title, Inc.

A federal court in the eastern district of Pennsylvania considered a consumer’s plea to invalidate a fraudulent loan taken out by a scammer posing as a Navy Federal Credit Union employee.

Navy Federal, while sympathetic toward her plight, moved to dismiss the action, stating her claim lies with the scammer, not the lender.

In a property dispute, a church sought a statutory partition of commonly owned real property and asserted claims for breach of contract and breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing after its motion to strike the defendant’s answer and dismiss his counterclaim was granted. The defendant appealed.