Appellant was a passenger onboard appellee's cruiseship. A sales agent of appellee's onboard jewelry store inadvertently contracted to sell a diamond to appellant for less than 1/20th of the diamond's actual value. When informed that there...

Plaintiff injured party was hurt when he fell on defendant property owner's front entrance steps. Plaintiff testified that the waxy paper that he slipped on came from the concession stand that defendant had contracted to have present and that defendant...

A railroad company was hired to transport eighteen cars of carnival show equipment, including employees and animals, from Tucson to Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona Corporation Commission required a railroad company to publish special intrastate rate for...

The trucking company brought an action against the state to declare its statute, Iowa Code § 321.457 (1979), to be invalid. The district court held that the statute violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The trucking company sought...

McKoy v. Potter United States District Court for the Southern District of New York April 20, 2009, Decided; April 21, 2009, Filed 08 Civ. 9428 (PKC) Opinion MEMORANDUM AND ORDER P. KEVIN CASTEL, District Judge: This is plaintiff Jerome McKoy's fourth...

The decedent daughter was a model and professional woman wrestler. The decedent daughter was murdered by her husband, who later committed suicide. Their deaths garnered a great deal of domestic and international media attention. Approximately twenty years...

Plaintiff shareholder filed a derivative complaint and then an amended complaint alleging that defendant directors breached their fiduciary duties to nominal defendant limited liability company (LLC) by approving a transaction with defendant real estate...

An unincorporated labor union demanded of an employer that he require all his employees, none of whom belonged to the union, on pain of dismissal, to join it and make it their bargaining agent. The employees, though left free in the matter by the employer...

Incollingo v. Ewing Supreme Court of Pennsylvania November 20, 1969, Argued ; January 25, 1971, Decided Nos. 395, 408 and 410, Jan. T., 1969 Opinion  [*269]   [**210]  We have before us three appeals from the judgments  [***2]  entered on jury verdicts...

A petition to incorporate the town of Wrightsville pursuant to the provisions of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 19-101, et seq. (Repl. 1980) was rejected by the Pulaski County Court. The appeal to circuit court resulted in a trial de novo in which the petition...