Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al

Filing 900

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Exhibit 59

Court of Cassation
Civil Division 1
Public Hearing of Wednesday 7 June 1989
Appeal No.: 87-14648
Published in the bulletin

Rejection

Chairman: Mr. Jouhaud Esq., Councilor Dean, Acting Chairman
Rapporteur: Mr. Jouhaud Esq., Councilor Dean, Acting Reporting Judge
Advocate General: Mr. Dontenwille Esq., General Counsel
Attorneys: The law firm Masse-Dessen, Georges and Thouvenin, the law firm Delaporte
and Briard, Attorney(s)

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE
On the first plea, taken in its two branches:
Whereas, as per the statements of the trial courts, the APCAPLIS (Association de
prévoyance des commerçants, artisans, professions libérales, industriels et leurs salaries
[Provident association for tradesmen, craftsmen, professionals, manufacturers and their
salaried employees]) and the APEP (Association pour la prévoyance dans l'enseignement
privé [Private school provident association]) have concluded a group insurance contract
with the Via insurance company which guarantees a retirement scheme to the members of
these associations who individually participated in the proposed system; that the Via
insurance company had this scheme managed by an insurance brokerage firm, the
company Sofraco;
Whereas, subsequent to the lack of regular payment by certain participants of their fees to
the two aforementioned associations, as well as following difficulties that arose between
Via and the broker that was the administrator of the system, Via deemed that they were
deprived of a portion of the fees that were due to them; that this company then advised
the two associations and all the participants that it was going to proceed to a
compensation between that which it deemed was owed to it and that which it owed itself,
and that it suspended the performance of all services to the participants during the time
period which was required to reimburse itself; that the associations have brought an
action against Via so as to get a ruling against the carrying out of this compensation; that
the contested ruling (Rennes, 18 March 1987) has recognized their claim;
Whereas, the company Via submits against this ruling that it has declared the action of
the two associations as being admissible, when in group insurance the underwriter, who
is never the insured party, would never have standing to claim the benefits promised by
the insurer, and therefore, also, that the dispute involved the delivery of services due to
the subscribing participants and not the payment of the premiums that were owed to the
insurer, and that the appeal court has thus disregarded the terms of the lawsuit;

However, whereas, on the one hand, the one stipulating a provision for others has
standing to demand the enforcement of the contract for which he is the underwriter; that,
on the other hand, the lawsuit that has come to be, due to the aspiration of the insurer to
compensate between the sums which, according to him, were owed to him by the
associations and that which he owed himself to the participants, had been resolved under
the very terms under which it had been submitted to the judges; that the means, which
was not well-founded in first instance was factually unfounded in the second;
And on the second plea:
Whereas, furthermore, the appeal court has been faulted for having ruled as they have,
when, firstly, that, in the case of insurance on behalf of the person to whom it will
belong, as in the case of a stipulation for others, the exceptions that the insurer can
enforce against the underwriter are likewise enforceable against the beneficiary; when,
also, that when two debts are intertwined, the judge is not able to dismiss the
compensation, on the basis of the fact that one of them would not meet the conditions of
liquidity and payability; when, furthermore, the ruling would have contradicted itself in
ruling at the same time that the underwriters were debtors of premium arrears, where it
was not possible to determine the amount the arrears and where the credit of the insurer
was not certain; when, likewise, the insurer had asserted in unanswered conclusions that
its co-contractors had never contested either the principle or even the amount of their
debt, and therefore, lastly, that the court of appeals could not have been able to rule that
the they had renounced demanding payment of the premium arrears of the underwriters,
without noting the existence of manifest actions that manifested the unequivocal desire to
renounce;
However whereas the participation in the group insurance contract, even if the
consequence of the stipulation on behalf of another, does not any less create a direct
contractual link between the participant and the insurer; that it is not different when this
contract entrusts the underwriter with the collection of the premiums on behalf of the
insurer; that, on the basis of this link, each participant has the right, when they have paid
their premium, to the services foreseen by the contract; that if it is possible for the insurer
to individually enforce the lack of payment against a determined participant, he would
not be able to indiscriminately compensate his debt towards certain parties by his credit
towards others; that it is noting that there was no identity of creditor and debtor, even if
the associations had, in their relationships with the insurer, received a mandate to levy the
premiums, and that the insurance company was not, under such conditions, justified to
enforce the compensation under the conditions in which it undertook it, the court of
appeal has, independently of any other ground, justified its judgment; that the plea cannot
be accepted in any of its branches;
ON THESE GROUNDS:
REJECTS the appeal

Publication : Bulletin 1989 I No. 233 p. 155
Contested judgment: Appeal Court of Rennes, of March 18, 1987
Titles and summaries:
1st STIPULATION ON BEHALF OF OTHERS – Insurance of persons – Group
insurance - Effects - Association having underwritten the policy – Undertaking
underwritten on behalf of the members – Action for enforcement of underwriter against
the insurer
1st The person stipulating a provision on behalf of others has standing to demand the
enforcement of the contract for which it is the underwriter; it follows that the action of an
association which has underwritten a group insurance contract so as to guarantee a
retirement scheme to the members of this association is admissible, even if it is not itself
the insured party.
1st STIPULATION ON BEHALF OF OTHERS – The stipulating party – Relationship
with the one making the promises – Undertaking underwritten by the latter on behalf of
third parties – Enforcement action
1st INSURANCE OF PERSONS – General rules – Group insurance - Underwriter –
Undertaking underwritten by an association on behalf of its members – Enforcement
action of the underwriter against the insurer
2nd INSURANCE OF PERSONS – General rules – Group insurance - Premiums Payment – Non-payment of certain participants – Right to withhold the indemnification –
Effectiveness of the exception of compensation to the other participants (no)
2nd The participation in a group insurance contract creates a direct contractual link
between the participant and the insurer and each participant has the right, when they have
paid their premium, to the performance foreseen by the contract; it follows that if the
insurer can individually enforce against one of the participants on the basis of their lack
of payment, the insurer will then not be able to indiscriminately compensate their debt
towards certain parties by means of their credit towards others.
2nd INSURANCE (general rules) - Action of the victim – Enforceability of the exceptions
by the insurer – Right to withhold the indemnification – Lack of payment of the
Enforceability of the exception of compensation to others (no)
2nd COMPENSATION – Legal compensation - Exception of compensation – Insurance
of persons – Group insurance - Premiums - Non-payment of certain participants – Right
to withhold the indemnification – Enforceability against other participants (no)
Jurisprudence precedents: COMPARE: (1st). Civil Division 1, 1956-07-12, Bulletin
1956, I, No. 306, p. 249 (Cassation); Commercial Division, 1979-05-14, Bulletin 1979,

IV, No. 153, p. 122 (Partial cassation). (2nd). Civil Division 1, 1981-11-03, Bulletin 1981,
I, No. 320 (1), p. 271 (Cassation).