• Douglas Oil Co. v. Petrol Stops Nw.

    Several independent gasoline dealers filed antitrust actions in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against several large oil companies. While discovery proceedings were under way, a federal grand jury empaneled in the Central...
  • Sporck v. Peil

    Plaintiff-respondent Raymond K. Peil alleged that defendant National Semiconductor Corporation ("NSC"), defendant-petitioner Charles F. Sporck, NSC's president, and defendant Peter J. Sprague, NSC's chairman, conspired to inflate artificially...
  • Horgan v. Macmillan, Inc.

    Appellant Barbara Horgan, the executrix of the renowned choreographer George Balanchine, was denied injunctive relief enjoining appellees from publishing a book containing photographs of dancers performing Balanchine’s choreography. The district...
  • Hollis v. Hollis

    Prior to their divorce proceeding, when their marriage was breaking down, the wife encouraged the husband to meet another woman and live with her for a period of time prior to him getting married again. The wife also signed a document that she would not...
  • Thomas v. Bethea

    The attorney, David Thomas, represented the clients who were the plaintiffs in a lead poisoning case. Allegedly upon the attorney's recommendation, the clients accepted a settlement offer and executed the releases demanded by Groscup, the settling...
  • Spies v. United States

    Defendant sought review of his felony conviction for criminal income tax evasion under 26 U.S.C.S. § 145(b) of the Revenue Act of 1936. The indictment alleged that defendant failed to file a tax return and willfully failed to pay the tax. At trial...
  • Managed Care Advisory Grp., LLC v. CIGNA Healthcare, Inc.

    Medical providers filed several class action lawsuits against managed care insurance companies, including CIGNA Healthcare, Inc., alleging that the insurers improperly processed and rejected certain physicians' claims for payment. The actions were...
  • NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.

    Frustrated with the employer's alleged interference with their right to organize, certain employees engaged in a "sit-down strike" by taking over two of the employer's buildings for 10 days despite a state court injunction. The National...
  • Cheffins v. Stewart

    Plaintiffs Simon Cheffins and Gregory Jones, along with a number of volunteers, transformed a used school bus into La Contessa, a mobile replica of a 16th-century Spanish galleon for use at the Burning Man Festival. After the defendant Michael Stewart...
  • Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Am. Senior Benefits LLC

    in 2004, plaintiff Bankers Life and Casualty Company (“Bankers Life”), an Illinois company selling insurance and financial products, hired defendant Gregory P. Gelineau as the branch sales manager responsible for its Warwick, Rhode Island...