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Supreme Court Upholds Govt's Power To Withdraw Promise Of Rebate In Larger Public Interest
While upholding the Goa Government's order to recover the previously granted electricity tariff rebates from several ...
JD Supra17h
Challenging a Patent via an IPR? Patentees Have an Approved Method to Mitigate the Impact
In response to a lawsuit for patent infringement, often a defendant will file an inter partes review (IPR) challenging the validity of the ...
JD Supra2d
Equitable Estoppel Can Be Invoked By a Non-Signatory Joint Employer to Compel Arbitration
Tell me if you have heard this one before: ten companies are sued by a former employee as “joint employers”, even though the ...
IPWatchdog4d
CAFC Reverses Dismissal of Patent Infringement Suit Against Groupon, Clarifying Collateral Estoppel Analysis
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in a precedential decision today reversed the U.S. District Court ...
Business and Financial Times on MSN4d
What makes a promise legally binding?
By MAXWELL Maxwell AMPONG(Dr.)\xa0What is the weight of a promise? A\xa0promise is a powerful thing. In law and in business, ...
MinnPost29d
‘Dirty hands,’ estoppel and the battle for control of the Minnesota House
A second basic claim is the concept of estoppel. Estoppel means, generally, according to Black’s Law Dictionary, that a party is prevented by his or her own acts from claiming the right to the ...