Plaintiff children brought a suit against the defendant insurer for the wrongful death of their father, who was killed as a result of a fire at the insured restaurant. Their father was suffocated while sleeping in his apartment that was next to the restaurant...

Gentry owns the 244 patent , which is directed to a unit of a sectional sofa in which two independent reclining seats ("recliners") face in the same direction. Sectional sofas are typically organized in an L-shape with "arms" at the...

On March 23, 2004, Brenda Burson Perkins was a passenger in a Toyota Camry driven by Nancy Fulgham. Fulgham stopped in the left-turn lane at a four-way stop at the intersection of Highway 82 and Highway 15, in Mathiston, Mississippi. When Fulgham turned...

Pennoyer v. Neff Supreme Court of the United States January 21, 1878, Decided; OCTOBER, 1877 Term No Number in Original Reporter 95 U.S. 714 *; 24 L. Ed. 565 **; 1877 U.S. LEXIS 2227 ***; 5 Otto 714 PENNOYER v. NEFF. Prior History:  [***1]  ERROR to the...

Three black bricklayers sought employment on a particular job with a corporation which routinely delegated the task of hiring a work force to the superintendent of a particular job. The superintendent did not accept applications at the jobsite but hired...

Defendant was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of carrying a pistol without a license under D.C. Code Ann. § 22-3204 (1973). At the hearing on defendant's motion to dismiss the subject count of the indictment...

Plaintiff estate of the deceased alleged that County of Maricopa jail officers subjected the deceased, who suffered from a mental illness to an unreasonable search and seizure while he was a pretrial detainee. Prior to transferring the deceased into the...

Appellant police officers beat a victim after he was stopped for drunk driving and refused to stay on the ground. Appellants were charged with state criminal violations and acquitted. Appellants were then charged with 18 U.S.C.S. § 242 for violating...

Appellant father filed a suit against appellees, a school principal and a superintendent of schools, for the alleged damages suffered by his son who was paddled by the principal. The father contended that the corporal punishment violated Ga. Code Ann...

Respondent NCL was a cruise line operating foreign-flag ships departing from, and returning to, U.S. ports. Petitioner disabled passengers purchased tickets for round-trip NCL cruises from Houston, and alleged that physical barriers on two of the respondent’s...