Plaintiff Verlinden B. V. (Verlinden), a Dutch corporation, brought suit against defendant Central Bank of Nigeria (Bank), an instrumentality of Nigeria, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, for an anticipatory breach...

Interscholastic high school sports in Illinois, including basketball, were conducted under the aegis of defendant Illinois High School Association ("Association"), a private association of virtually all of the state's public and private...

A private group at Neuqua Valley High School, called the Gay, ***, and Straight Education Network, promoted an annual event called the "Day of Silence" that was intended to draw attention to the harassment of homosexuals. Students participated...

Thonex Williams was indicted in Ohio common pleas court for rape and other offenses. He was hospitalized when he was found to be incompetent to stand trial. After the time period prescribed by R.C. 2945.38 passed, the court retained jurisdiction under...

When petitioner Riggins, while awaiting a Nevada trial on murder and robbery charges, complained of hearing voices and having sleep problems, a psychiatrist prescribed the antipsychotic drug Mellaril. After he was found competent to stand trial, Riggins...

The Indiana procedure for pretrial commitment of incompetent criminal defendants provides that a trial judge with reasonable ground to believe the defendant is incompetent to stand trial must appoint two examining physicians and schedule a competency...

Oklahoma law presumed that a criminal defendant was competent to stand trial unless he proved his incompetence by clear and convincing evidence. Applying that standard, a judge found petitioner Cooper competent on separate occasions before and during...

Plaintiff Donna Cockrel, a tenured fifth-grade teacher at Simpsonville Elementary School in defendant Shelby County, Kentucky School District ("District") was terminated on July 15, 1997 by the District's superintendent, Dr. Leon Mooneyhan...

Plaintiff Marilyn Parducci was dismissed from her position as a high school teacher in the Montgomery public schools for assigning a certain short story to her junior (eleventh grade) English classes. Parducci subsequently filed a lawsuit in federal district...

On March 31, 1991, Kimberly Broussard bought a concert T-shirt at a concert of a pop music group, New Kids on the Block. The shirt was black with white lettering. On the front of the shirt, printed in letters approximately eight inches in height, were...