Due diligence has changed beyond recognition in recent years and continues to evolve at pace. Traditionally, it involved a team of compliance officers manually searching through legal documents and financial accounts to detect risks of doing business...

Plaintiffs, who were injured when a defect in a car owned by one of the plaintiffs caused an accident, appealed from a judgment of nonsuit in favor of defendants, an automobile manufacturer and an automobile dealer, in a consolidated action to recover...

Somers v. Apple, Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit February 11, 2013, Argued and Submitted, San Francisco, California; September 3, 2013, Filed No. 11-16896 Opinion  [*956]  SUMMARY 1 Antitrust The panel affirmed the district court's...

Plaintiff minority shareholders sought to enjoin a pending exchange offer by which defendant corporation, the majority shareholder, hoped to acquire the rest of the shares of the company at issue by exchanging shares of its own stock. The minority shareholders...

Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division October 18, 1989, Argued ; December 22, 1989, Decided No. A-1873-88T2 Opinion  [*12]   [**1198]  Plaintiffs appeal from summary judgments granted to the remaining defendants...

Kirven v. Cent. States Health & Life Co. Supreme Court of South Carolina November 19, 2013, Heard; June 25, 2014, Filed Opinion No. 27403 Opinion  [*34]   [**796]  CERTIFIED QUESTION JUSTICE KITTREDGE: We certified the following questions from the...

Defendants G. W. Haight and W. Dea Haight purchased a parcel of real property from Plaintiffs James R. Brinton and Patricia J. Brinton. The Haights attempted to pay off the mortgage amount and requested delivery of a trustee's reconveyance deed. When...

Plaintiff Twentieth Century-Fox, a Delaware corporation, moves to remand this action to the New York State Supreme Court after it was removed to this federal district court on the petition of the defendant Richard Burton. The action is one of a series...

Defendant Harold Garrison was convicted in Maryland state court of violating Maryland's Controlled Substances Act after marijuana and related paraphernalia were discovered in his apartment. The evidence had been seized in a search conducted pursuant...

Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP Supreme Court of California August 7, 2008, Filed S147190 Case Summary Procedural Posture The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three, held that a noncompetition agreement that defendant accounting...