In a marriage dissolution proceeding, the trial court held that since the husband had not yet acquired a "vested" right to a retirement pension from his employer, the value of his pension rights did not become community property subject to division...

Defendant Indiana State Symphony Society, Inc. and plaintiff Viktors Ziedonis, a violinist, entered into an employment contract. Thereafter, plaintiff was terminated after he missed two out of town shows. The discharge was to be effective after the end...

Appellant Linda Herbert filed a negligent infliction of emotional distress suit against respondent UCLA Medical Center, in which she alleged that her son could have contracted AIDS when he stuck himself with needles that he found in an examining room...

Plaintiff-Appellant Dippin' Dots, Inc. ("DDI") marketed and sold a brightly-colored flash-frozen ice cream product that consisted of free flowing small spheres or beads of ice cream. DDI had a distinctive logo made up of oval of blue, yellow...

In 1971, inmates at a county jail in Suffolk County, Massachusetts sued the county sheriff, the state commissioner of corrections, the mayor of the city of Boston, and nine city councilors, claiming that inmates not yet convicted of the crimes charged...

Plaintiff Mark Cyr sustained injuries when a bulldozer backed into him and crushed his leg. Cyr brought a strict liability and negligence action against defendants, manufacturer and seller. A jury returned special verdicts for defendants. Cyr appealed...

The buyer accepted the option to purchase certain lands by telephone within the option time limit but sent a written acceptance of the option eight days after the expiration of the time within which the seller had agreed to become bound by such acceptance...

The decedent was survived by collateral relations only. The decedent's half uncle was related to the decedent in the nearest degree, the third degree. After the half uncle died, his universal legatees sought to take the decedent's estate in his...

The pedestrian sustained injuries after she tripped and fell over an oil hose that was laid across the sidewalk. The pedestrian filed a personal injury action against the oil truck owner. An auditor entered a decision for the pedestrian finding that the...

The ex-husband appealed from a trial court judgment awarding alimony to his ex-wife. The ex-husband claimed the award was unwarranted and alternatively excessive. The ex-husband claimed that a pre-marital agreement stipulating the separateness of property...