Plaintiff Samuel J. Sunseri was injured from a fight with the bartender. Sunseri brought an action against defendant Patrick Puccia, owner of a restaurant and lounge, and defendant Larry Goeske, his bartender, for injuries received during the altercation on the...
Plaintiff is Sara Gideon Hill, widow of Harry Murdock Hill. Defendants are the residuary legatees and devisees under Mr. Hill's will and the beneficiary of insurance policies on his life: his mother, Anna Mary Hill, his sister, Ruth M. Huhn, and his brother...
Appellant V.S.H. Realty, Inc. and appellee Texaco, Inc. entered a contract for the sale of a bulk storage petroleum facility. Appellant visited the property and observed oil seeping from the ground. Appellant notified appellee that it would not go through with...
Defendant, who was then a professional baseball player, was summoned before a grand jury and questioned for nearly three hours about his suspected use of steroids. He was subsequently charged with four counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction...
Choice Hotels sued SBQI, Inc., plus several of its managers and investors, seeking damages for a breach of a franchise agreement. The defendants did not answer the complaint, and the clerk of court entered a default. One of the defendants, Tarranpaul Chawla, an...
Defendants were associated with Princeton Newport Partners, L.P. (PN), a limited partnership investment firm with offices in New Jersey and California. From time to time in the period between 1984 and 1987, PN owned substantial quantities of stock that had depreciated...
Respondent Jonathan Stevens, a former employee of petitioner Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, brought a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) against petitioner, alleging that petitioner submitted false claims to a government agency in connection...
Appellant, Fred Black, was indicted and prosecuted on numerous counts including a RICO Act violation, one count of conspiracy, seven counts of concealment of material facts, seven counts of causing a failure to file currency transaction reports, five counts of...
Defendants Charles LeCroy and Anthony C. Snell are charged in Counts 26 and 27 of this indictment with wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2, for allegedly soliciting and obtaining from Philadelphia attorney Ronald White a false $ 50,000 invoice presented...
In 2009, plaintiff applied for social security benefits, claiming that disability began on August 1, 2006. After an administrative hearing, the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) held that the plaintiff was not disabled and, considering the plaintiff’s...
In 1989, a group of juveniles went on a rampage in a park for an hour, attacking several persons. Defendants implicated themselves and each other in a number of the crimes that had occurred in the park. In 1990, defendants were convicted in two separate trials...
Plaintiff, North Central Utilities, filed an original petition stating that Walker Community Water System, Inc., alleged to be a "public entity," advertised for bids for the construction of a water distribution system. Plaintiff alleged that it met all...
Appellant Rodman & Renshaw, a securities brokerage house and member of the New York Stock Exchange, appeals from an adverse judgment in the district court awarding appellees Richard and Joan Sennott damages of $99,600 plus prejudgment interest. Appellant was...
Citibank (South Dakota), N.A. ("Citibank") sued defendant Mary Mincks ("Mary") for breach of contract after Mary refused to make any further payments on her Citibank credit card account. Mary defended on the ground that: (1) the only unpaid...
Defendant debt collection law firm appealed from the United States District Court for the District of Montana, challenging the entry of summary judgment against it under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and a subsequent jury verdict awarding...
This litigation was begun by bill in equity filed June 13, 1917, in the circuit court of Cook county by the American University against D. E. Wood and the Chicago University of American Sciences, a corporation. The bill alleged complainant is a corporation organized...
Petitioner owned a three-tenement house. Pursuant to the Public laws 1956, chap. 3715, the city council enacted the Minimum Standards Housing Ordinance requiring tenement house owners like petitioner to provide a rear hallway light in its premises and to install...
This is an appeal from a decision of the Appellate Court, First District, which affirmed a decree of the circuit court of Cook County finding that certain declarations of trust executed by Albert B. Farkas and naming Richard J. Williams as beneficiary were invalid...
Male officers in appellant city's (city) police department (department) were subject to an internal order that required them to shave their beards. Appellees, police officers for the city, were both devout Sunni Muslims who were under a religious obligation...
In a declaratory judgment action, the city obtained summary judgment against the attorney general declaring that certain information kept by the city police department was confidential by law and therefore not subject to compelled disclosure under the Texas Public...
Decedent Deborah Roach’s body was cremated, and a portion of her remains were given to respondent Chaunce Hayden. In 1995, despite the family’s wishes, Hayden engaged in certain “on air” conversations with cable talk show host, respondent...
After Richmond police received information from confidential informants that Dana Jackson was dealing narcotics, police officers conducted a trash pull from the trash can located behind the apartment rented from the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority...
The decedent, Hilliard Cohen, executed a will requesting a burial in his family's plot in New York. Years later, the decedent and his wife moved to Florida. The decedent expressed a desire to his wife and his daughter to be buried with his wife. At first, he...
On September 25, 2000, Mr. Downing purchased a 1999 BMW 528i from BMW, and granted BMW a lien on the car. On June 11, 2001, the Downings filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition. Debtors' proposed a plan for the surrender of the 1999 BMW and for the payment of...
Michael and Kathryn Melendez brought this action against their neighbor James Hintz after Hintz blocked a driveway on his property which the Melendezes and their predecessors had used for twenty years. The Melendezes claimed they had acquired a prescriptive easement...