by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
r2 Advisors, LLC v. Equitable Oil Purchasing Co. (In re Red Eagle Oil, Inc.) When the distributor of Exxon-branded fuel ran into financial trouble, it agreed to transfer its rights to supply several retail stores to the defendant in exchange for the latter’s...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
In re Stericycle Financial expert testimony is critical to class actions, which are their own breed of lawsuits. What is still an unresolved issue is whether courts must perform a full Daubert inquiry at the class certification stage. A contract case illustrates the...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Uncategorized
When your company’s staff is culturally diverse, it can be tempting to require all employees to only speak English during the workday. You may be thinking it’s easier to promote unity and teamwork when everyone speaks the same language. It may not be legal though....
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Lally Orange Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Sandhu Although both sides in a Florida judicial appraisal action offered expert opinions on the value of a car dealership, the trial court used a valuation whose author and methodology were unknown. In rejecting the lower...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
TiVo Research & Analytics, Inc. v. TNS Media Research LLC A damages case involving significant amounts of money began to unravel when the trial court excluded the plaintiff’s expert, saying the damages opinion failed the causation requirement. The plaintiff’s...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Uncategorized
The Supreme Court often agrees to rule on issues where individual appeals courts have come to different conclusions, in order to create a uniform national legal standard. This was the situation when the court passed down a 5-4 decision for Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis....
