Defendant Avon Motors, Inc. (Avon) was engaged in the business of buying and selling used automobiles. Avon leased its place of business and all of its equipment to lessee (defendant Levin), who planned to operate his own used automobile business at the...

In 1965, parents purchased a property and included their daughter as a joint tenant with rights of survivorship on the deed to avoid probate upon their deaths. In 1980, the daughter moved to the property to care for her elderly parents. The father died...

The Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 9, New York, adopted a program of daily classroom prayers in public schools. The prayer was brief, denominationally neutral, and its observance on the part of the students was voluntary. Shortly...

In order to manage the allocation of water and to resolve conflicting claims thereto, Colorado enacted legislation under which the state was divided into seven Water Divisions, in each of which a procedure was established for the settlement of water claims...

Before the effective dates of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA") and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA"), § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality...

Lockheed Martin Corp. (“Lockheed”) removed Semtek International, Inc.'s (“Semtek”) California state-court suit to a California Federal District Court based on diversity of citizenship, and successfully moved to dismiss the...

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This case arises from the single-sex program adopted by Van Devender Middle School ("VDMS") in a commendable attempt to improve the education of its students. On August 15, 2012, the plaintiffs filed this action alleging that the single-sex...

Defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver, aggravated assault, and resisting a police officer in the performance of his duties. He claimed that he was entitled to a new trial because the trial court refused to excuse...

Petitioner was convicted of multiple charges in the beating death of a man. He testified that he originally joined in a plan to frighten the victim, but withdrew from the plan when he realized the victim was a friend. He claimed trial counsel had been...