In a telephone conversation, the employer offered permanent employment to the employee if the employee rejected another offer and purchased a certain home. The employee agreed to the employer's terms and began performing his duties under the arrangement...

Chrysler LLC and its related companies (hereinafter "Chrysler" or "debtor" or "Old Chrysler") filed a pre-packaged bankruptcy petition under Chapter 11. The filing followed months in which Chrysler experienced deepening losses...

Lucht's Concrete Pumping, Inc., the petitioner, is a Colorado Corporation in the concrete pumping business which begun to expand into the Summit County area in 2001. To implement its expansion, the petitioner hired the respondent Tracy Horner as the...

The encroacher's foundation wall extended over the neighbor's property by one and three-eight's inches for a length of fifty feet. The encroacher contended that it should be permitted to enter the neighbor's land to remove the wall. The...

On August 3, 1989, the government filed a three-count indictment against each of the appellants and three other individuals, Wai Yip Lin, a/k/a "Sonny", Anan Peter Peechaphand, and Mark Larotonda. Count One, the only count in which the four...

Appellants Charles Cornett, James Coldiron and Clarence Robinson, were each charged in a two count indictment with violating, and conspiring to violate, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment alleged that after the...

A customer suffered a back injury when she fell in the Tallahassee Cracker Barrel Restaurant. In a case filed to recover for injuries she sustained, she alleged that Cracker Barrel negligently maintained the floor in a particular area of the restaurant...

Pennsy was involved in a state project and was hired to do paving of driveways and a parking lot. It contracted with American Ash, who provided the mateiral for free. which was supplied. After the work was completed, the pavement cracked and Pennsy had...

Plaintiffs sought review of an order from Court of Appeals which reversed an award of attorney's fees on the ground that plaintiffs were not the "prevailing party" eligible to receive attorney fees under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1988.

The case was remanded to the appellate court when the United States Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's affirmance of a district court's refusal to order civil commitment of five respondent inmates under the Adam Walsh Child Protection...