Plaintiff Santorini Cab Corporation ("Santorini") and defendant Banco Popular North America ("Banco") entered into two contracts for the sale of taxicab medallions. The May 2006 contract was for the sale of medallion number 2408 from...

Before passing the Bar exam, petitioner George Willis Hightower engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by drafting and filing, over the signatures of licensed attorneys who had not given their consent, three complaints. At an initial evidentiary...

On March 23, 1996, defendant John Hollenbach, Sr. was working as a subcontractor on a cable-installation site. While digging a ditch, Hollenbach's excavator struck a buried natural gas line owned by defendant Washington Gas Light Company (Washington...

Defendants Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway Company and contractors it hired (collectively, "Railroad") were constructing railroad lines along a river on land opposite to the property owned by plaintiff Elkanah Hill. During the construction...

Plaintiff Shane K. Enslin was an employee of defendant The Coca-Cola Company ("Coke"). Over the course of several years, 55 laptop computers were stolen from Coke's premises or from premises of some of its affiliates, (collectively, "Coke"...

Defendant Chestnut Motors, Inc. ("Chestnut") operated an automobile sales agency and garage in an area of the city that had been experiencing a high and increasing number of automobile thefts. About ten o'clock a.m. on a particular day,...

Petitioners filed a suit to enjoin the city water department from diverting water from a lake. Petitioners asserted that the lake was protected by the public trust. Respondent trial court ruled that the public trust doctrine offered no independent basis...

The respondent City of Minnetonka ("City") had an ordinance requiring that detached garages be set back a certain distance. Respondent JoAnne Liebeler had a detached flat-roofed garage on her property and requested a variance from the City to...

Intervenor Atlantis Development Corporation, Ltd. ("Atlantis") obtained uncertain ownership rights to certain coral reefs off the Florida coast from the person who discovered the reefs in 1962. That same year Atlantis sought permission from...

Plaintiff Elizabeth Crankshaw was injured in a slip-and-fall accident while on the premises where defendant Piedmont Driving Club, Inc. ("Piedmont") operated a restaurant. Crankshaw claimed that while she and two companions were eating at the...