KELLY McCLAIN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. OCTAGON PLAZA, LLC, Defendant and Respondent COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, 159 Cal. App. 4th 784; 71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 885; January 31, 2008, Filed FACTS: 1. McClain owns and operates business known as A+ Teaching Supplies. 2. Ted and Wanda Charanian are the principals of Octagon, which owns and operates a shopping center in Valencia, California. 3. On February 28, 2003, McClain agreed to lease commercial space in the shopping center for five years and two months. 4. The contract has an option to extend the lease for two more five-year terms. 5. The lease is a standard form agreement prepared by the American Industrial Real Estate Association. 6. Paragraph …show more content…
Paragraph 4.2 permits Octagon, at its option, to estimate the common expenses for the upcoming calendar year and to require McClain to pay a prorated share of the estimate with her monthly base rent during the year. 13. If McClain underpays her share of the common expenses, she must pay the balance owing no later than 10 days after receiving the statement; if McClain overpays her share, she is to receive credit against her share of the common expenses for the forthcoming year. 14. Prior to entering into the lease McClain attempted to confirm the size of the unit. This offended the Charanians and they told McClain that measuring the area would be very costly due to the odd angles of the space. The Charanians insisted that McClain could rely on their measurements of the area. 15. In early 2005, McClain obtained a copy of Octagon’s earthquake insurance, which disclosed the correct size of the shopping center as 12,800 square feet, rather than 11,835 square feet the Charanians used in calculating McClain’s share of the common expenses. 16. McClain also discovered her unit was only 2,438 feet rather than the 2,624 square feet represented. She was being charged $269 per month extra on her base rent. 17. As a result of this misrepresentation, McClain was paying more than $90,000 extra over the term of her
The collective bargaining agreement between the National Hockey League and the player’s association stipulates that arbitration must be used initially in order to resolve disputes relating to salary, grievances, and system. A case that did a good job of demonstrating the authority of the collective bargaining agreement’s stipulation of an arbitration clause was McCourt v. California Sports, Incorporated. In this case plaintiff signed a National Hockey League Standard Players Contract to play professional hockey with defendant team. After defendant picked up a free agent from another team, the other team proposed that plaintiff's contract be assigned to it as compensation. An arbitrator agreed and plaintiff's contract was assigned. Plaintiff filed suit alleging that the reserve system and the assignment of his contract as compensation for the free agent violated § 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.S. § 1 (1976). The district court entered a preliminary injunction restraining defendants, hockey league, team, and players' association, from enforcing the arbitration award and from penalizing plaintiff for refusing to
The Association alleged in its lawsuit that certain elements of the property were not constructed in a good and workmanlike manner including 1) failure to properly install and flash windows and other exterior penetrations; 2) properly caulk the exterior penetrations; 3) failure to properly install the weather resistive barrier; 4) failure to properly to install the stucco exterior; 5) failure to properly install the EIFS exterior and 6) failure to install brick exterior.
Section 1, titled terms lists the terms of the contract. The terms of the agreement must be definite and certain. All material terms must be included. The material terms allow a court to determine what the damages are in the event that one of the parties breach the terms of the contract. Section 1, of Exhibit D: Commercial Lease Agreement list the date the lease starts and the date the lease ends. It then lists the damages that the tenant may take if the landlord is not able to provide the leased premises in a timely manner. The section then goes on to state the terms of the renewal process. The process of renewing the lease is set with a written notice of 90 days. This process is definite and certain. The renewal provision then states that the terms shall be at the rental listed in the below sections of the agreement and upon the same covenants, conditions and provisions as contained in the lease agreement. Both the terms listed to lease the premises and to renew the contract is definite and certain and it lists the material terms.
When considering the facts of the Margolin’s lawsuit with the rules of jurisdiction, first one must understand when personal jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction would be applicable. As stated in the textbook, “Personal Jurisdiction is a court 's power to render a decision affecting the rights of the specific persons before the court. Generally, a court 's power to exercise in personam jurisdiction extends only over a specific geographic region.” (Kubasek, pg.42, 2009). Before a court can decide to implement control over a person, they require a minimum contact within the district in which the court is over. In this case, the minimum contact was established over the internet when Margolin inputted information over the internet that completed the business transaction. Since the contact is through the internet, and not within boundaries of the state of California or Florida, the court can exercise personal jurisdiction Margolin’s lawsuit over Funny Face and Novelty Now (Kubasek, 2009).
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The Chancellor and Smith informed the Board of Trustees that only 20 thousand square feet of the Conn’s property would be leased. At the same time, HCC would use the remaining 5 thousand square feet.
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Peter booked a room for a week at Macgregor Hotel. At the reception desk, where he made the booking, was a notice limiting the hotel’s liability for loss of, damage to guest’s property.
Both statements were incorrect. Studmaster gave Mrs Tran 7 days to agree to the lease
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