• Edwards v. Aguillard

    A Louisiana statute required the state's public schools to give "balanced treatment" to "creation science" and "evolution science." The statute defined "creation science" and "evolution science" as...

  • Marsman v. Nasca

    Appellant trustee had the power under a testamentary trust to pay the principal to a beneficiary for his support and maintenance. Aside from one payment, the trustee never made any payments to the beneficiary and, as a result, the beneficiary had to convey...

  • Reott v. Asia Trend, Inc.

    Appellants, entities involved with the sale of a tree stand, sought review of an order which reversed a trial court order that had denied a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) by appellee tree stand user (TSU) after a jury verdict was...

  • People ex rel. Ellison v. Lavin

    Relator was a publisher of a trades newspaper known as the "United States Tobacco Journal" in which he published an advertisement asking readers to enter a contest to win money if they guessed how many cigars of all brands the United States...

  • TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez

    TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez Supreme Court of the United States December 16, 2020, Decided No. 20-297. Opinion Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition...

  • Gonzalez v. Rutherford Corp.

    Gonzalez v. Rutherford Corp. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York March 31, 1995, Decided CV 91-4534(RR) Opinion  [*832]  MEMORANDUM and ORDER RAGGI, District Judge: Plaintiff Jorge Gonzalez, a New York resident, invokes this...

  • Am. Hosp. Supply Corp. v. Hosp. Prods., Ltd.

    The distributor and supplier had a contract to provide exclusivity to the distributor to sell the supplier's goods. Due to the supplier's financial straits, the distributor purchased more goods than it needed. Although the contract provided for...

  • Jordan v. Jewel Food Stores, Inc.

    This trademark and right-of-publicity dispute pits basketball legend Michael Jordan against Jewel Food Stores, Inc., the operator of 175 Jewel-Osco supermarkets in and around Chicago. On the occasion of Jordan's induction into the Naismith Memorial...

  • Sch. Bd. of Nassau Cty. v. Arline

    An elementary school teacher who had contracted and recovered from tuberculosis 20 years earlier suffered a series of relapses, resulting at one point in her hospitalization, and the local school board discharged her after the third relapse because of...

  • McDonald v. Sorrels

    McDonald v. Sorrels United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division May 29, 2020, Decided; May 29, 2020, Filed CAUSE NO. 1:19-CV-219-LY Opinion ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Before the court in the above-styled...