Appellant steamship company and appellee shipbuilding company were corporations of the State of California. Appellee filed its libel in personam against appellant to recover a balance claimed to be due for certain work and labor done, services rendered...

The Chairman of the Department's Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“Board”) made a written request, in the form of a memorandum, to the Department's General Counsel. The Chairman described the facts in "this case," which...

The Department of Energy promulgated and published a final rule amending the energy efficiency standards for central air conditioners in January 2001. Subsequently, in February 2001, without any prior notice or comment, the DOE published what it denoted...

Appellant Jane Winter, the former Director of Care Management at Gardens Regional Hospital ("Gardens Regional"), brought the present qui tam action under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33, alleging that defendants...

Defendant Tito Juan Pino-Perez supplied large quantities of cocaine to a drug ring in southern Wisconsin headed by a drug kingpin. He was convicted of violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 2(a), aiding and abetting a drug kingpin, as defined in 21 U.S.C.S....

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USCS 552) required that certain records held by a federal agency be made available to the public. Exemption 5 of FOIA exempted from this requirement "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters"...

Eighty-five prospective jurors were questioned as members of a panel. Thirty-six of these survived challenges for cause; 5 of the 36 were black; and all 5 of the prospective black jurors were eliminated by the prosecution through the use of peremptory...

Appellants, who offered customers the convenience of paying with a credit card, alleged that appellees conspired with each other to set the fees charged to merchants, such as appellants, for payment of credit card sales. Appellants contended that appellees'...

Appellee Dr. Nancy Yaros brought a negligence action against appellant, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, after she fell at one of its ice-skating rinks. Appellant offered appellee to settle for $ 750,000. Appellee's attorney informed...

The Appellee Joseph M. Whiting brought an action based upon his termination from the police department and, after his first attorney was replaced and his second attorney withdrew, the appellee hired Appellant Garrett Lacara to pursue his claims. Upon...