Lord Hodge said the Companies Act 2006 prohibited such a long contract without the approval of a company's shareholders.

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The Federal Arbitration Act has roots in the historic hostility of state judges to any sort of private contract that diminished their ability to question its terms.

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Courts have also ruled that act-of-war clauses do not apply where risk can be foreseen when the contract was signed.

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Under the False Claims Act, if Armstrong and others are found to have violated the act, they could be on the hook for triple the amount of the total paid under the contract.

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As discussed on prior blogs, the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Fin Reg bill forced the hand of the CFTC to act by Oct. 19 because it would otherwise bar non-eligible contract participants from off-exchange retail forex trading.

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He seamlessly switches from asbestos lawsuits, which involve individual plaintiffs who each signed a contract with their lawyer, and class actions where lawyers purport to act on behalf of thousands or millions of people who may not even know the case exists.

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If an act of nature, a specific supplier or some other uncontrollable act can make it impossible for you to fulfill a contract (and thus open yourself up to legal action) then you should be putting to ink that you are not liable for incomplete work due to these factors.

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