• Blackmon v. XTO Energy, Inc.

    Blackmon v. XTO Energy, Inc. Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District, Waco December 10, 2008, Opinion Delivered; December 10, 2008, Opinion Filed No. 10-07-00345-CV Opinion  [*602]  David Blackmon, Rebecca Blackmon Reed, and Jay Harlan (collectively...

  • Am. Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut

    Am. Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut Supreme Court of the United States April 19, 2011, Argued; June 20, 2011, Decided No. 10-174 Opinion  [*415]   [**2532]  Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court. We address in this opinion the question whether...

  • 2016 CFTC LEXIS 22

    2016 CFTC LEXIS 22 Commodity Futures Trading Commission June 02, 2016 CFTC Docket No. 16-19 Opinion The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") has reason to believe that from in or about April 2013 to at least February 2016 (the...

  • Heffron v. Int'l Soc'y for Krishna Consciousness

    The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., an organization espousing the views of the Krishna religion, and the head of one of the Society's temples filed suit in a Minnesota state court against Minnesota officials, seeking declaratory...

  • Gasperini v. Ctr. for Humanities

    Plaintiff journalist, William Gasperini, brought a diversity action for damages against defendant production company, The Center for Humanities, Inc.'s (Center), that lost his slide transparencies. Judgment in the amount of $450,000 was remitted to...

  • Texaco Inc. v. Dagher

    Petitioners, Texaco Inc. (Texaco) and Shell Oil Co. (Shell), collaborated in a joint venture, Equilon Enterprises, to refine and sell gasoline in the western United States under the two companies' original brand names. After Equilon set a single price...

  • Hodges v. Johnson

    The defendants, Alan Johnson, Joseph McDonald, and William Saturley, appealed an order of the 7th Circuit Court-Dover Probate Division which, following a bench trial, set aside “decantings” from two 2004 irrevocable trusts of which the plaintiffs...

  • Vreeland v. Ferrer

    Danny Ferrer entered into an agreement to lease an airplane from Aerolease of America, Inc. (Aerolease) for a period of one year. On January 14, 2005, after taking off from an airport in Lakeland, Florida, the plane crashed. The pilot, Donald Palas, and...

  • United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc.

    The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan seeking to enjoin the owner of a land near the shores of Lake St. Clair in Michigan from filling the property without the permission...

  • Marshall v. Marshall

    The decedent, J. Howard Marshall II (J. Howard), Vickie Lynn Marshall (Vickie), a.k.a. Anna Nicole Smith’s husband, did not provide anything for her in his will. While J. Howard’s estate was subject to ongoing proceedings in state probate...