He is owed about $4 million, which he will probably get much of; it is hard to imagine Boren and company wanting any part of a contractual lawsuit.
Marsh tells more than some music lovers will want to know about contractual treachery, lawsuits and skewed production values, leading to sentences like this: "The Beatles' second American album (second on Capitol, at least) couldn't conform to the Beatles' second British album, because the first American album pretty much was the second British album".
Equally, the record companies do not exactly have the moral high ground here as lawsuits over contractual and licensing terms by artists appear regularly.
A draft of these written instructions was probably prepared for the plaintiff before he came into court, but there could be no trial until it was accepted by the defendant, for there was always a contractual element about a lawsuit under both the new and the old systems.
The two companies had spent about US$1.5 million in legal fees fighting each other in various contractual, trademark and patent infringement lawsuits since 1905, but, on the advice of investors, the two companies merged in 1925 to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co.
"Patrons of Canyon Ranch intended and expected that Canyon Ranch would honor its contractual commitment and representations," the lawsuit said, "and therefore distribute tips and service charges (including without limitation the 18percentt charge) to the plaintiffs".
Al-Rumaihi was accused last month of trade libel and contractual interference in a $1.2 billion lawsuit filed by rapper Ice Cube and business partner Jeff Kwatinetz.
Instead, the firm allowed the originators to settle the put-back claims confidentially "by making cash payments that were a fraction of the contractual repurchase price," according to the lawsuit.
"Neither the fact that High River did not own the bank debt at the time it entered into the contracts, nor the fact that the market has moved against High River, nor any other reason, excuses High River from meeting its contractual obligations," Goldman says in its lawsuit.
Only recently have some courts allowed class-action lawsuits by people without such contractual relationships, notably by people who sued tobacco companies because they were exposed to colleagues' second-hand smoke.
