Byrd v. Aaron's Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit January 23, 2015, Argued; April 16, 2015, Filed No. 14-3050 Opinion  [*158]  SMITH, Circuit Judge . Plaintiffs Crystal and Brian Byrd bring this interlocutory appeal under Rule...

Alford v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit October 26, 1992, Decided No. 91-6208 Summary Calendar. Opinion  [*1162]  DUHE, Circuit Judge: This appeal follows the district court's dismissal with prejudice...

The restriction owner had sold property subject to a restrictive covenant, which purported to prohibit purchasers and their successors from developing the property with the adjoining land. On appeal of the invalidation of the restriction, he argued that...

Respondent was a native and citizen of Italy who lived continuously in the United States for 30 years. During that time respondent was twice convicted and imprisoned for possessing whiskey and alcohol with intent to sell it in fraud of the law and evade...

Plaintiff Cindy Planchard, filed suit against defendant the New Hotel Monteleone, LLC. Planchard alleged that as she traversed the lobby of defendant's hotel, she slipped on a foreign substance on the marble floor and fell, sustaining an injury. After...

On March 1, 1973, appellees Legille et al.'s attorney mailed from East Hartford, Connecticut, to the Patent Office in Washington, D.C., a package containing four patent applications. Each of the applications had previously been filed in the Grand...

In 2011, Equustek filed suit in Canada against a group of individual and corporate defendants associated with Datalink, a rival computer hardware distributor and seller. Equustek alleged that Datalink had colluded with a former Equustek engineer to incorporate...

Ulane became a licensed pilot in 1964, serving in the United States Army from that time until 1968 with a record of combat missions in Vietnam for which Ulane received the Air Medal with eight clusters. Upon discharge in 1968, Ulane began flying for Eastern...

Plaintiff parties with an interest in a religious educational institution sued defendant villages and officials alleging claims under 42 U.S.C.S. §§ 1982, 1983, and 1985 for violations of their rights under the Free Exercise and the Free Assembly...

Plaintiffs brought a class suit against the defendants for violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through the use of minimum score requirements on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) to certify and determine...