• Tex. Brine Co., L.L.C. v. Am. Arbitration Ass'n

    Tex. Brine Co., L.L.C. v. Am. Arbitration Ass'n United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit April 7, 2020, Filed No. 18-31184 Opinion  [*483]  LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge: One of the parties to an arbitration claimed that two of the...
  • Ott v. Consol. Freightways Corp.

    Ott v. Consol. Freightways Corp. United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division April 16, 2002, Decided ; April 16, 2002, Filed CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:01CV829LN Opinion  [*663]  MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiffs...
  • Walker v. Lawson

    The decedent intended on leaving her estate to her two minor sons by her first deceased husband. Appellee attorney Lawson prepared the will. After the decedent passed, the second husband elected to take against the will and received his share under Ind...
  • United States v. Piedra-Morales

    Defendant Efrain Piedra-Morales was caught and pled guilty to illegal reentry into the United States. Previously, he had been deported three times from the United States. At his subsequent deportation hearing in federal district court, the court applied...
  • Tackett v. Commonwealth

    In June 2011, defendant General Tackett, Jr., returned to the United States from his then-home in Guatemala. Upon his arrival, he was arrested and charged with seven counts of sex crimes against two alleged victims, his son, Nicholas, and Sarah, a female...
  • Karpinski v. Ingrasci

    The Plaintiff, Dr. Karpinski (the "Plaintiff"), was an oral surgeon in solo practice in Auburn, Cayuga County until 1953. In 1953, the Plaintiff sought to expand his practice by cultivating connections in four surrounding counties. In other...
  • Connick v. Thompson

    Petitioner, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, conceded that in prosecuting respondent Thompson for attempted armed robbery, prosecutors violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S. Ct. 1194, 10 L. Ed. 2d 215 , by failing to disclose...
  • Broad v. Rockwell Int'l Corp.

    The indenture holders sought to enforce their rights under the indenture after a take-over of their company. Additional relief was sought under contract theories and federal securities violations. Those causes of action were subject to a directed verdict...
  • Niosi v. Aiello

    The administrator's brother died as the result of being struck by a street car of a railway company's predecessors' railroad cars. The complaint alleged that the attorney was grossly negligent in the conduct of the case, with the result that...
  • Midler v. Ford Motor Co.

    Defendant company and defendant agency advertised automobiles with a series of television commercials. Different popular songs of the 1970s were sung on each commercial, and the agency tried to get the original artists to sing them. Where it failed, the...