Dopp v. HTP Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. “The Dopp/Yari agreement is far outside the heartland of agreements contemplated by the legislature when it enacted Article 1425. It is likely that the lawmakers did not envision the possibility of a case like this. Property and assets have traditionally been mortgageable to protect and preserve their value. In this case, the lawsuit’s worth is an asset which requires expenditures for the services of attorneys and experts, as well as for other general costs of litigation to preserve its value. To apply Article 1425 without allowing for adjustments to reflect expenditures that have permitted the lawsuit to survive would be to deplete and maybe extinguish altogether the value of the lawsuit....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pritzker v. Yari

2. “[p]roviding Dopp with an unencumbered ... equity interest in HTP is not a reciprocal obligation of the Oral Agreement assumed by the defendant. Indeed the plaintiff 'fully expected that there would be some reasonable option' and therefore did not rely on the absence of an option clause to enter into the Oral Agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dopp v. Pritzker

3. “thereby caus[ed] significant additional expenditures by the plaintiff, only to have the amount of the verdict against him increased by the second verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dopp v. Pritzker