Colorado residents and organizations who claimed potential harm from the discharge of radioactive effluents from two nuclear power plants, brought an action against petitioner, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the...

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents gave grand jury subpoenas duces tecum issued in blank from the district court to the presidents of banks where the defendant kept his accounts. The banks made the documents available to the agents, which...

The New Hampshire Bar Association (NHBA) and the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules (Committee) worked together to produce, propose and recommend a new system of rules of civil procedure for the state of New Hampshire. The NHBA and the Committee...

Paul Guebara shot and killed his wife, Genny Guebara, after she had filed for a divorce. Guebara admitted the homicide in his testimony at the trial. His counsel requested the trial court to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of voluntary...

Kelly Giles (Kelly), a general partner in a family farming partnership, Giles Land Company, L.P., filed suit against the partnership and his partners, arguing that he had not been provided access to partnership books and records. The partnership had held...

In December, 1992,attorney Browning handled for client McCarty the closing for McCarty's purchase of a home. After the purchase (in 1996) McCarty was cited by Monroe County for having an illegal downstairs enclosure on the property, the enclosure...

The parties were both students at the same high school. About a month prior to the incident, plaintiff injured student injured student had received an injury to his shin which seemed to have healed. About a month after the incident, the injured student's...

At school, defendant Putney, a minor, kicked another minor child, A.V., which caused serious injury to A.V.'s leg. The leg became so infected that it required amputation. Plaintiff Vosburg, A.V.'s father, filed a lawsuit against Putney in Wisconsin...

Business owners, including attorneys, know how important the federal tax deduction for “ordinary and necessary” business expenses is to their profitability and survival. The less money a business pays in taxes, the more profits it has with...

A female bank employee was allegedly subjected to sexual harassment by her male supervisor, including (1) public fondling, and (2) sexual demands, to which she allegedly submitted out of fear that she would otherwise lose her job. She filed suit against...