Backus Plywood Corp. v. Commercial Decal, Inc. And Alfred Duhrssen

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that multiple alleged breaches of the same contract did not constitute separate claims because they arose out of “a single transaction composed of a closely related series of occurrences”
• applying “operative facts” test to determine whether multiple claims were present
• “[E]ven if the Agreement constitutes an oral ‘agreement to agree,’ it remains subject to the statute of frauds.”
• ‘Where the district court issues a [Rule 54(b)] certificate, we have no jurisdiction unless the district court had power to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).