Tattoo Art, Inc. v. TAT International, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff “failed to satisfy the condition precedent necessary to trigger the right to initiate litigation” in an agreement that required “mediation . . . prior to filing any action”
• stating that the “failure to mediate a dispute pursuant to a contract that makes mediation a condition precedent to filing a lawsuit warrants dismissal”
• granting defendants’ motions to dismiss based on plaintiff s failure to request mediation before filing suit as required by parties’ contract
• granting motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction due to plaintiff’s failure to engage in mediation prior to commencing litigation
• finding dismissal was warranted when party failed to mediate a dispute pursuant to a contract making mediation a condition precedent to filing a lawsuit
• requiring dismissal because “[a]s with any other contract, this Court cannot simply ignore the clear intent of the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).