Garden Ridge, a Houston-based chain of housewares and home décor stores, sent Advance International (Advance) – one of its vendors – two purchase orders, one for approximately 950 nine-foot waving snowmen (PO '721), and the other...

Pursuant to a 2015 congressional mandate, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) created a new class of securities offerings freed from federal-registration requirements so long as the issuers of these securities comply with certain...

Plaintiffs, property owners and managers, commenced action against defendants, city and its mayor, seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the newly enacted Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, Chicago Mun. Code § 193.1.The...

The Pecks purchased their parcel (the Peck parcel) on May 16, 1986, to be used as a cranberry bog. Their certificate of title lists the following easement rights over the parcel now belonging to Williams (the Williams parcel): (1) a right of way, (2)...

The sellers agreed to sell a portion of their land to the buyers, an employee and his wife. Despite the buyers' repeated requests, the contract was never formalized. When the employee resigned and accepted employment with a competitor of the sellers...

In March 1962, appellee buyer, Western Equities, Inc., offered to purchase from appellant seller, Monroe Street Properties, Inc ., ten insured first mortgages and notes in exchange for some of appellee's stock. Appellant seller accepted the offer...

Plaintiff-appellant Thomson S.A. was the assignee of the patents in the suit, which were directed to optical information-storage devices, such as compact discs (CDs). Plaintiff made and markets machines that read or play CDs, and granted licenses under...

The 1987 Deed conveyed to the grantee, the Lee Monument Association, a round piece of property (the Circle) in the City of Richmond, Virginia, to use the property as a site for a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In December 1889, the General...

Maine has enacted a program of tuition assistance for parents who live in school districts that neither operate a secondary school of their own nor contract with a particular school in another district. Under that program, parents designate the secondary...

The plaintiffs are stockholders of Investors Bancorp, Inc. and were stockholders at the time of the awards challenged in this case. The defendants fall into two groups—ten non-employee director defendants and two executive director defendants. Investors...