Brock v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, under Texas law, treating contract as continuing after breach “does not deprive the nonbreaching party of its contract claim” and that non-breaching party is “deprived only of any excuse for ceasing its own performance under the contract”
• applying Texas law to determine whether there was a breach of contract and what damages the breaching party owed
• denying quantum meruit when the work was within the scope of the contract
• “[T]he normal measure of damages in a breach of contract case is the benefit-of-the-bargain measure.”
• “District courts are assigned a gatekeeping role to determine the admissibility of expert testimony.” (citing Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 592–98 (1993))
• “District courts are assigned a gatekeeping role to determine the admissibility of expert testimony.” (citing Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 592–98 (1993))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).