At the time of their marriage in 1975, appellant Catherine E. Walsh Simeone was a twenty-three-year-old nurse and appellee Frederick A. Simeone was a thirty-nine-year-old neurosurgeon. Frederick had an income of approximately $90,000 per year, and Catherine...

Plaintiff Maplewood Bank and Trust (hereinafter, “plaintiff”) was the holder of a first purchase money mortgage dated September 20, 1988. The mortgage was recorded on October 5, 1988 on premises owned by defendants Edward and Terre Capers...

Plaintiff General Electric Capital Commercial Automotive Finance, Inc. (“GECC”) and defendant Spartan Motors, Ltd. (“Spartan”) had a security agreement whereby GECC acquired a blanket lien on the Spartan’s inventory. Thereafter...

Plaintiff Thomas Clark found logs floating and moored them. The logs were subsequently found in the possession of defendants John Maloney an Robert Maloney, who refused to give them up, contending they had found them adrift. Clarke filed an action of...

Plaintiffs B.V., a minor student, and several fellow students who attended California public schools, filed a lawsuit in California state court against defendants State of California and several state officials, seeking a court order declaring various...

A group of college students organized what they called a "local chapter" of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and filed a request for official recognition as a campus organization. Following a hearing where the representatives of the group...

Respondent Frye was charged with driving with a revoked license. Because he had been convicted of the same offense three times before, he was charged, under Missouri law, with a felony carrying a maximum four-year prison term. The prosecutor sent Frye's...

Petitioner sought review of a judgment affirming her conviction under the state Criminal Syndicalism Act. The conviction was based on her involvement with the Communist Labor Party of California, including membership in the party. On appeal, petitioner...

Voters challenged appellant state officials' congressional redistricting plan as violative of U.S. Const. amend. XIV . The District Court for the Southern District of Georgia invalidated the congressional redistricting plan enacted by the state. Various...

Devisees contracted to sell several lots adjacent to petitioner property owners' land for the purpose of building a commercial development. Petitioners, whose deeds contained restrictive covenants limiting the use of the property to residential purposes...