In 2024, we alerted you to a decision out of the First Appellate District of Ohio (The Huntington National Bank v. Schneider, C-230072 (December 29, 2023)), where the Court was asked to review a grant of summary judgment in...more
Obligations reduced to a promissory note are often accompanied by a written guaranty. The law treats the guaranty as an independent obligation. A case recently decided by California’s First District Court of Appeal —...more
Cincinnati v. PE Alms Hill Realty, LLC, 1st Dist. Hamilton, 2023-Ohio-2784. In this appeal, the First Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s decision to grant commercial lenders summary judgment on their breach of...more
All too often commercial parties sign contracts without paying much attention to the “boilerplate” provisions. And all too often that causes a problem for one of the parties. ...more