United States v. Bishop United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit February 8, 1991, Argued and Submitted, Pasadena, California May 1, 1991, Submission Vacated; September 4, 1991, Resubmitted ; March 25, 1992, Filed No. 89-50560 Opinion  [*821...

Plaintiff David Mueller initiated a lawsuit in Colorado state court against defendant Taylor Swift and others asserting claims of intentional interference with contract and intentional interference with prospective business relations. Swift in turn filed...

An Illinois law forbade a person, with exceptions mainly for police and other security personnel, hunters, and members of target shooting clubs, to carry a gun ready to use. Plaintiffs Michael Moore and several other gun owners filed lawsuits in two federal...

Defendant Maurice Lydell Harris was accused of shooting and wounding Bernard Canto and of killing Canto's fiancé, Alicia Allen, who was pregnant when she was killed. Canto was killed by others before trial, but before he passed, he had testified...

Samuel Barnes designed an improvement in corset-springs in 1855. Upon completion of the invention, Barnes showed to several of his friends how the corset-springs work. In 1873, and several years after the invention had been put to use with Barnes’...

Buyers entered into an agreement to purchase the property from the seller. Unbeknownst to them, real party in interest insurer had filed a lis pendens on the property, which was not indexed at the time the buyers received their deed. The buyers did not...

After petitioner's parental rights to her minor children were terminated, she sought to appeal. However, since she lacked funds to pay for record preparation required by Miss. Code Ann. §§ 11-51-3 and 11-51-29 as a predicate to appeal, her...

An individual paid the defendant to ship a crate of nitroglycerine from New York to San Francisco. Neither the defendant nor any of the defendant's employees knew what the crate contained. Little was known about the properties of nitroglycerine at...

City of Rockford v. Mallinckrodt ARD, Inc. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division August 7, 2018, Decided; August 7, 2018, Filed No. 17 CV 50107; No. 18 CV 379 Opinion  [*490]  ORDER ESTABLISHING PRODUCTION...

The test for determining whether a cause of action is barred by the dramshop act, Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1801(10), is: (1) Does the claim against "the tavern owner" arise out of an unlawful sale, giving away, or furnishing of intoxicants...