• Planned Parenthood Ark. & E. Okla. v. Jegley

    In 2015, Arkansas enacted the Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act, 2015 Arkansas Acts 577. The U.S. legislature justified the enactment of the said law in its findings that abortion-inducing drugs were associated with an increased risk of complications...
  • Pevsner v. Commissioner

    Since June 1973 Sandra J. Pevsner, appellee taxpayer, has been employed as the manager of the Sakowitz Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche Boutique located in Dallas. Although the boutique sells clothing that is ready to wear, the clothes were highly fashionable...
  • Wygant v. Jackson Bd. of Educ.

    In response to racial tension in a community and its schools, the Board of Education and the teachers union in Jackson, Michigan added a "layoff provision" to their collective bargaining agreement; it required that in the event of layoffs, "teachers...
  • Pers. Adm'r of Mass. v. Feeney

    During her 12-year tenure as a state employee, appellee, Helen Feeney, who is not a veteran, had passed a number of open competitive civil service examinations for better jobs, but because of Massachusetts' veterans' preference statute, she was...
  • Womack v. Eldridge

    A private investigator made a misrepresentation to the plaintiff in order to take his picture. The picture was used by an attorney in connection with his defense of a child molestation case against another person. The plaintiff, however, was not associated...
  • Pinter v. Dahl

    Petitioner Pinter, an oil and gas producer and registered securities dealer, sold unregistered securities consisting of fractional undivided interests in oil and gas leases to respondent Dahl, a real estate broker and investor, who was experienced in...
  • Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.

    Appellee hotel corporation brought a suit to enjoin appellant hotel corporations from continuing with the construction of a 14-story addition to a hotel owned and operated by appellants. Appellee claimed that the addition cast a shadow over the cabana...
  • Forster v. Hall

    Over many years, restrictive covenants were included in the vast majority of the deeds in a subdivision providing that no mobile homes, either single or double-wide, could be parked and/or erected on the property. The owners purchased the lots at issue...
  • Cooley v. Pub. Serv. Co.

    The subscriber suffered traumatic neurosis, an emotional injury accompanied by loss of sensation on the left side, after wires fell during a storm and caused an explosive sound in the telephone she was using. She did not claim that the company was negligent...
  • Falejczyk v. Meo

    A trespasser used part of the landowners' property for a parking lot. The landowners brought an action in trespass. While the trial court found that a trespass had taken place, it also determined that the landowners had failed to re-enter the land...