Dean v. Kruse Foundation, Inc., Dean Kruse and Kruse International v. Jerry W. Gates

How courts have described this case

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

• holding law of the case doctrine did not apply because the relevant issue was not decided directly or by implication in previous appeal
• determining that law of the case did not bar the court’s consideration of whether forfeited earnest money constitutes liquidated damages or a penalty because that issue was not expressly decided in the prior appeal
• determining that law of the case did not bar the court’s consideration of whether forfeited earnest money constitutes liquidated damages or a penalty because that issue was not expressly decided in the prior appeal
• “[I]n most real estate purchase agreements, a measure of damages should be readily ascertainable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).