Alleging that she had been discharged solely because of her race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Rosemary August, an airline flight attendant, sued her former employer Delta Air Lines Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern...
The Third Circuit recently ruled that the consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson can't create an entity to spin off billions of dollars of liability (relating to consumer lawsuits claiming Johnson & Johnson’s talc product contained traces of...
Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. (In re Cardizem CD Antitrust Litig.) United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit April 30, 2002, Argued ; June 13, 2003, Decided ; June 13, 2003, Filed No. 00-2483 Opinion [***3] [*899] OBERDORFER...
In recent months, LexisNexis has been meeting with the team members behind our products to ask them their expertise on content, data enrichments, and more. These are the people who work directly with our solutions and our clients—meaning they’re the...
Amoroso v. Sun Life Assur. Co. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington December 3, 2021, Decided; December 3, 2021, Filed CASE NO. C20-5887 BHS Opinion ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT SUN LIFE'S MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES THIS MATTER...
Fink v. Time Warner Cable United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit October 26, 2012, Argued; May 6, 2013, Decided Docket No. 12-0299-cv Opinion [*740] Per Curiam : Plaintiffs-Appellants Jessica Fink and Brett Noia ("Plaintiffs") appeal...
Fischer v. Governor of N.J. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit September 30, 2020, Argued; January 15, 2021, Filed Nos. 19-3914 and 19-3995 Opinion OPINION 1 SHWARTZ, Circuit Judge . Plaintiffs are New Jersey public school teachers who paid dues...
On September 9, 1962, the appellant, William Whirl, was arrested on suspicion of felony theft by the City of Houston police and placed in the Houston city jail. Two days later Whirl was transferred to the Harris County jail where he was booked, identified and deprived...
Alexander v. Sandoval Supreme Court of the United States January 16, 2001, Argued ; April 24, 2001, Decided No. 99-1908 Opinion [***523] [**1515] [*278] JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether private individuals...
This is an appeal by Eusebio Villa, plaintiff and appellant herein, from a jury verdict in favor of Michael Derouen, Villa's co-employee, and Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Derouen's homeowner insurer, defendants and appellees herein. This...
Endeavor Marine v. Crane Operators, Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit December 11, 2000, Decided No. 99-30197 Opinion [*288] PER CURIAM: This appeal of a summary judgment presents a question of "seaman" status under the Jones...
Hong Kong Islands Line America S.A. v. Distribution Services, Ltd. United States District Court for the Central District of California July 29, 1991, Decided ; July 29, 1991, Filed; July 31, 1991, Entered CV 89-3029 JSL (Gx) Opinion [*984] IN ADMIRALTY FINDINGS...
Plaintiffs M.R. and several other minor high school students ("Students") filed a lawsuit in California state court seeking to enjoin defendant Pruneyard Shopping Center ("Pruneyard") from preventing the Students' efforts to obtain signatures...
Plaintiff Alexander Mahban leased retail spaces and operated to shops within a hotel owned and operated by defendant MGM Grand Hotels, Inc. ("MGM"). The hotel was closed after being damaged by a fire. MGM sent Mahban a letter that indicated its intent...
The mortgagor owned a plantation that consisted of land in cultivation. The mortgagor executed several promissory notes, a deed of trust to secure the notes, and he authorized the sale of the land at a public auction if he failed to pay the notes at maturity. The...
Plaintiffs-appellants musicians Tricia Lerohl and Shelley Hanson commenced two separate actions against defendant-appellee Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia, a nonprofit corporation that governs the Minnesota Sinfonia. Lerohl and Hanson allege that they were terminated...
An Indiana statute, “Voter ID law” required that any person voting in person on election day, or casting a ballot in person at the office of the circuit court clerk prior to election day, to present photo ID issued by the government. This did not apply...
Debtor Domistyle, Inc. owned a candle factory located on several acres in Laredo. Domistyle was a manufacturer and purveyor of home goods. It was placed in receivership in April 2013. Shortly thereafter, the receiver, Milo Segner, initiated Chapter 11 proceedings...
At a joint trial of the defendant and his alleged accomplice, the accomplice did not testify, but the government introduced the accomplice's oral confession. The confession stated that the accomplice and defendant had committed the robbery. Both defendant and...
Plaintiff in error advertising company was convicted of violating the city's ordinance, which regulated signs and billboards and provided that no sign could be more than eight feet high or less than 10 feet from the street line. The lower appellate court upheld...
A realty company conveyed by deed several parcels of land developed by it for a residential community. The deeds contained a covenant, that by its own terms was a lien that ran with land, and bound all subsequent to an annual fee for the purposes of maintaining...
A jury found Defendant guilty of sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy to sex traffic a minor. The district court imposed a life sentence.
Defendant, who was found guilty of three counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 2113(a), appealed his conviction and sentence by the District Court, arguing that the district court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of Minnesota bank...
Defendant moved to dismiss a complaint brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that Panuwat called as an unprecedented expansion of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The SEC alleged that Panuwat used confidential information about...
Defendants appealed the trial court's grant of a preliminary injunction requiring them to relocate certain air conditioning and pool equipment to the opposite side of their property.