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Case Summary
Greenberg Gallery, Inc. v. Bauman
Greenberg Gallery, Inc. v. Bauman, 817 F. Supp. 167 (D.D.C. 1993), aff’d without opinion, 36 F.3d 127 (D.C. Cir. 1994).
Précis
In this
breach of contract
Violation of a contractual obligation by failing to perform one's own promise, by repudiating it, or by interfering with another party's performance (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004)).
breach of contract case, buyers of a mobile attributed to Alexander Calder sued the work’s sellers, claiming that it had movement and balance problems and that it was a
forgery
The crime of creating a false document, altering a document, or writing a false signature for the illegal benefit of the person making the forgery (http://dictionary.law.com).
forgery. After hearing conflicting expert testimony at trial, the court ruled that the plaintiffsfailed to show that the work was. . . .
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