Duffy v. Wolle United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit March 13, 1997, Submitted ; August 19, 1997, Filed No. 96-3210 Opinion  [*1029]  MAGILL, Circuit Judge. David Duffy sought to be appointed to the position of Chief United States Probation...

Sobel v. Major Energy Servs., LLC United States District Court for the Southern District of New York September 8, 2020, Decided; September 8, 2020, Filed 19 Civ. 8290 (PGG) (DCF) Opinion ORDER PAUL G. GARDEPHE, U.S.D.J.: In this diversity action, Plaintiff...

In these actions for copyright infringement, plaintiff Saul Steinberg sued the producers, promoters, distributors and advertisers of the movie "Moscow on the Hudson" ("Moscow"). Steinberg is an artist whose fame derives in part from...

United States v. Williams United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit August 20, 2019, Filed No. 18-1080 Opinion  [*1124]  PHILLIPS , Circuit Judge. Does it matter if a veteran lies about having served overseas? Yes, if the veteran lies to the...

Google LLC v. Lee United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit March 28, 2019, Decided 2017-2227, 2017-2272 Opinion  [*993]  Prost , Chief Judge . Google LLC ("Google") petitioned for inter partes review ("IPR") of claims...

Five years after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved metoclopramide, a drug commonly used to treat digestive tract problems, under the brand name Reglan, generic manufacturers such as petitioners also began producing the drug. Because...

The start of a new year is an ideal time for solo practitioners and small law firm attorneys to take stock of their law firms’ operations over the last year and determine what they can do better in the year ahead. Below are four areas of your...

This is an intra-family dispute over an option to buy land. Lawrence Burgess and Reuth Burgess (grandparents) live on the Underhill land in question. They ran a sugarhouse on the land and later on, their grandsons William and James (plaintiffs) took over...

Petitioner Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. (“Sumitomo”) is a New York corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese general trading company. Past and present female secretarial employees of Sumitomo, who, with one exception, are United...

In 1985, a Kentucky court sentenced Petitioner Simmons to death following a jury trial at which he was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of three Louisville area women in the early 1980s. The Kentucky courts affirmed his conviction and death sentence...