Kentucky Coal Lands Co. v. Wilder

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when a “valid assignment is made, the assignee steps into the assignor’s shoes and acquires whatever rights the latter had, including the right to enforce the contract” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• considering argument raised for the first time in a reply because the opposing party had an opportunity to respond
• “Here, Plaintiff—which did not exist prior to February 2014 and was formed solely to ‘retain’ this cause of action from BSC Partners—clearly did not have a proprietary interest in the Subcontract underlying this action that predates the transfer of claims to Plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).