Decedent Helen C. Bostwick created a trust, with the intention of transferring additional sums into the trust. Decedent's death occurred prior to completion of the transfers. The trustee and the remaindermen under the trust and the legatees under...

The author of a pre-existing work agreed to assign the rights in his renewal copyright term to petitioners, owners of a derivative work, but the author died before the commencement of the renewal period. The author's executor renewed the copyright...

In 2003, defendant Clark County School District ("District") promulgated Regulation 5131 (Regulation), which created a standard dress code for all Clark County students and established a means by which individual schools in the District could...

A Federal Magistrate Judge initially found petitioner Sell, who had a long history of mental illness, competent to stand trial for fraud and released him on bail. However, the Magistrate later revoked bail because Sell's condition had worsened. Sell...

Petitioner Dee Farmer, a preoperative transsexual who projects feminine characteristics, was incarcerated with other males in the federal prison system, sometimes in the general prison population but more often in segregation. Farmer claimed to have been...

After a 2004 conviction, respondent Alejandro Rodriguez, a Mexican citizen and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was detained pursuant to §1226 while the Government sought to remove him. In May 2007, while still litigating his removal...

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Plaintiff probationary employee was employed by a federal agency. After giving plaintiff an opportunity to comment on charges that he publicly flaunted his gay life style and identified himself as a gay employee of the agency by which he was employed...

Wright Co. v. Herring-Curtiss Co. District Court, W.d. New York February 21, 1913 No. 400 Opinion  [*597]  HAZEL, District Judge. This bill in equity relates to the infringement of United States letters patent granted May 22, 1906, to Orville and Wilbur...

New York v. Exxon Corp. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York August 6, 1990, Decided ; August 7, 1990, Filed No. 85 Civ. 1939 (KC) Opinion  [*476]  OPINION AND ORDER KENNETH CONBOY, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE. This is an...