• Franks v. Bowman Transp. Co.

    In a class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against an employer and certain unions for racially discriminatory employment practices in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 USCS 2000e...
  • Harte-Hanks Commc'ns v. Connaughton

    In September 1983, a candidate for a municipal judgeship in Hamilton, Ohio conducted a tape-recorded interview with a witness who made bribery charges against the incumbent judge's court administrator. Based on these charges, the candidate filed a...
  • United States v. Freeman

    Appellant Dwayne Freeman challenged his conviction of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C.S. § 2113(b) , (d) (1982) . At trial in federal district court, the facts surrounding the robbery and Freeman's guilt were never at issue. On appeal, Freeman merely...
  • Conrad v. Phone Directories Co.

    Plaintiff Sean Conrad sued his former employer, Phone Directories Co., and its chief executive and financial officers (defendants Marc and Mike Bingham, respectively; all three defendants will be collectively referred to as "PDC") on state-law...
  • Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert

    Petitioner company called for the redemption of certain convertible debentures, fixing a date by which debenture holders could convert their debentures into shares of petitioner's stock and after which debenture holders could only redeem their debentures...
  • Presley v. Georgia

    Defendant Eric Presley was convicted of a cocaine trafficking offense in Georgia state court. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Georgia. Presley filed a petition for certiorari, claiming his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a...
  • Product Spotlight: Lexis Analytics™ Suite

    Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, predictive analytics, big data—those aren’t buzz words. They’re real technologies that are helping law firms, lawyers and other folks in the legal profession gain unprecedented data-driven...
  • Innovation - We Need You

    Over the last decade, we have experienced some of the greatest technology innovations in history. Apple launched this technology phase with its all-in-one product, the iPhone ® , completely revolutionizing the way consumers think of mobile phones...
  • United States v. Wood

    Wood set up an entity known as the S-M-W Investment Group out of an office in Kalispell, Montana. At approximately the same time, Wood created entities known as Rover Resources and Norcross. Wood and his employees advertised these companies as Canadian...
  • United States v. Wong

    John Barry Wong was charged with seventeen counts of violation of the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (1976), and two counts of violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961-68 (1976 &...