The copyright holder owned videotape footage of a truck driver being beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The plaintiffs alleged that a video news service, previously owned by the network's predecessor, distributed this copyrighted footage to...

The plaintiff racer appealed the judgment, which granted the summary judgment motion of the defendant racetrack in the racer's action that charged the racetrack with one count of negligence and two counts of gross negligence.

Appellees and appellants co-owned land that contained significant rock asphalt. The appellees sued the appellants for an accounting of the asphalt removed from the property. After the jury found that the rock asphalt could not be divided, the lower court...

Appellee news show and newscaster presented their news show, which included a review of a product of appellant corporate manufacturer. Appellee newscaster stated that the product did not work, and appellant filed suit, claiming defamation and business...

The pretrial detainees brought a class action under 42 U.S.C.S. §§ 1983, 1985, against the sheriff, certain administrators of the jail, and the county board of supervisors, challenging policies and practices of the jail governing contact visits...

The decedent had a .23 percent blood alcohol content, and struck her head on stone steps when she allegedly jumped from a balcony after stating her intention to come down from the balcony directly to the level below rather than retreat and come back down...

Plaintiff suffered injuries in an automobile accident caused by an intoxicated driver. The intoxicated driver had just left the defendant restaurant where he had consumed a large number of alcoholic beverages.

Tenants filed a small claims action against their Landlords for $2,089.00 in security deposit, attorney fees, and court costs. The small claims court found that the Tenants had provided a permanent address—a post office box in Lapel—and their...

The daughter's father called 911 and requested an ambulance as a result of bad headaches. The dispatcher suggested that the father take aspirin and did not send an ambulance. Nine hours later, an ambulance was requested by a neighbor, and the father...

The defendant was found guilty of murdering two persons in the course of a single transaction upon the murder of a pregnant woman, whose in utero fetus was delivered and lived for 42 days before dying. The trial court denied the defendant's motion...