Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Taylor v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co.

Taylor v. Nashville Banner Publ’g Co., 441 U.S. 923 (1979)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1979-04-23
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that an express warranty for a period of one year explicitly extended to future performance
  • ordering production of taxpayer’s “internal audit reports,” which had identified accounting procedures that misstated revenues and expenses
  • unauthorized phone access to coomputer supports wire fraud conviction where computer source code considered property under statute
  • sale of storage facilities to a food processing plant; cause of action accrued on the date when installation was completed
  • “extension of the normal warranty period does not occur in the usual case, even though all warranties in a sense apply to future performance of goods”
  • courts have been harsh in determining whether warranty is one of future performance
  • "The correct response of a trial judge, when confronted with allegations of improper jury contact, is to give notice to the parties and to question the jurors on the record about any alleged incident.”
  • cause of action under § 2-725 accrues upon initial installation of product

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Ct. App. Tenn. Certiorari denied.