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Walker, 66 Mich. 568, 33 N.W. 919 (Mich. 1887), [1] was a case that has played an important role in the evolution of American contract law involving the doctrine of mutual mistake. One of the main issues in the case was whether the remedy of rescission is available if both parties to a contract share a misunderstanding about an essential fact. [2]
Laidlaw has been recognized by U.S. legal scholars as a central case in the history of U.S. contract law. It was "one of the first cases to come before the [Supreme] Court involving a contract for future delivery of a commodity." [1] It is also the first case to start to articulate a doctrine of forbidding active concealment.
When it did, in Southland Corp. v. Keating, [18] then-Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote for a 7-2 majority that not only upheld Prima Paint but held that the law applied to arbitration clauses in contracts executed under state law as well. Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor dissented, as they would in subsequent cases where the court upheld that ...
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In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to review the purely administrative decision of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to itself refuse jurisdiction over an appeal from the Commissioner of Patents under the Act of 1920. U.S. Printing & Lithograph Co. v. Griggs, Cooper & Co. 279 U.S. 156 1929 Substantive
The case is important in contract law, as to legal remedies and compensating expectancies. The Supreme Court held that the measure of damages is not the difference between the contract price and the fair market value if the property had been properly represented, but rather what the plaintiff had lost by being deceived into making the purchase.