Northern Heel Corp. v. Compo Industries, Inc.

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• discussing application of Cummings factors in determining reasonableness of fees awarded under contractual provision
• affirming award of attorney's fees to prevailing party under contract with nearly identical indemnity language
• finding, where plaintiff brought claim for breach of contract, conditions precedent excused where defendant “deprived [plaintiff] of the 25 opportunity to demonstrate the fulfillment of [those] conditions”
• where repudiation “was but a tool engineered to serve this illicit purpose” of extracting price concessions, there is breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing
• “Where the contract for employment of counsel provides a clear and workable formula for determining the amount of fees, the terms of the agreement will usually control.”
• “The law should not be 1 cannot serve a legitimate penological goal or constitutional interest. See Rizzo v. Dawson, 778 F. 2 2d 527, 532 (9th Cir. 1985) (claiming that an action is arbitrary sufficiently alleges the absence of 3 any legitimate correctional goal

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