Legal Opinion
Dinan v. Alpha Networks, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 20, 2014No. 13-1976PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Michael Dinan, a resident of Maine, began working for California-based Alpha Networks as a salesman in 2005 pursuant to a written employment agreement. In 2010 Dinan ceased working for Alpha because of a dispute over how much he was entitled to be paid in commissions. Litigation followed. A jury ultimately found that the written agreement included, no promise to pay Dinan commissions on sales after 2008, but that Dinan was entitled to quasi-contract damages in the amount of $70,331.93 for sales made in 2009 and 2010. The question then remained whether to treble those…
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