Lewis Herrera worked in Wyoming for Lufkin Industries, Inc. ("Lufkin"), a company that provided oil field equipment and services, and he claimed that he quit his job with Lufkin because its general manager of service operations, who worked in...

Ciena Corp. v. Oyster Optics, LLC United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit January 28, 2020, Nonprecedential Order Issued; May 5, 2020 1 , Precedential Order Issued 2019-2117 Opinion  [*1158]  ON MOTION O'Malley , Circuit Judge . ORDER...

United States v. Whitfield United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit December 11, 2009, Filed No. 07-60748 Opinion  [*335]  GARWOOD, Circuit Judge: Defendants-appellants, attorney Paul Minor and former Mississippi state judges John Whitfield...

The executives of WorldCom, Inc. engaged in a secretive scheme to manipulate WorldCom's public filings concerning its financial condition and those public filings were incorporated into the registration statements for two particular bond offerings...

At a routine driver's license checkpoint, a police officer saw a green party balloon, knotted near the tip, drop from the hands of a driver of a stopped automobile to his seat. The officer then shifted his position to obtain a better view and saw...

A jury had rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee William G. Tullis and awarded damages on Tullis’ retaliatory discharge claim under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act against defendant-appellee employer, Townley Engineering &...

Bessie Winston gave Associated Contractors, Inc., her promissory note for $ 1,008, payable in monthly installments, for a heating plant in her house. The Federal Housing Administration guaranteed the note, and the payee endorsed it for value to the lending...

Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown, and Robyn Sullivan ("the Browns") form a "plural family." Kody Brown is legally married to Meri Brown and "spiritually married" to the other three women, whom he calls...

Each time a phone connects to a cell site, it generates a time-stamped record known as cell-site location information (CSLI). Wireless carriers collect and store this information for their own business purposes. After the FBI identified the cell phone...

On December 19, 1980, the child named Howard Nemon was delivered to appellant daycare center by his parents, appellees David and Suzanne Nemon. The child was taken outdoors for twenty to twenty-five minutes of free play. Appellant employee Jackie Jones...