• Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna

    Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna Supreme Court of the United States November 29, 2005, Argued ; February 21, 2006, Decided No. 04-1264 Case Summary Procedural Posture Certiorari was granted to the Supreme Court of Florida to review its judgment...
  • Schlobohm v. Schapiro

    Schlobohm v. Schapiro Supreme Court of Texas February 14, 1990 No. C-8131 Case Summary Procedural Posture Petitioner lessors sought review from the Court of Appeals of Dallas County, Fifth District (Texas), which found that respondent lessee's contacts...
  • Oswego Laborers' Local 214 Pension Fund v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A.

    Oswego Laborers' Local 214 Pension Fund v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A. Court of Appeals of New York January 5, 1995, Argued ; February 14, 1995, Decided No. 17 Case Summary Procedural Posture Appellant union funds sought review of a decision of the...
  • Ferguson Beauregard/Logic Controls, Div. of Dover Res., Inc. v. Mega Sys., LLC

    Ferguson Beauregard/Logic Controls, Div. of Dover Res., Inc. v. Mega Sys., LLC United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit December 4, 2003, Decided 02-1380, 02-1427 Case Summary Procedural Posture Appellants, a patentee and its licensee, sued...
  • Stone v. Ritter

    Stone v. Ritter Supreme Court of Delaware October 5, 2006, Submitted ; November 6, 2006, Decided No. 93, 2006 Case Summary Procedural Posture Plaintiff shareholders appealed a judgment of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, in and for New...
  • Greenfield v. Philles Records

    In the early 1960s, Veronica Bennett (now known as Ronnie Greenfield), her sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley, formed a singing group known as "The Ronettes." They met defendant Phil Spector, a music producer and composer,...
  • Broad. Co. v. Oak Ridge FM, Inc.

    Defendant Oak Ridge FM, Inc. contractually agreed for plaintiff *** Broadcasting Company ("DBC") to have a right of first refusal to purchase Oak Ridge FM's WOKI-FM radio station assets. The agreement was assignable by DBC only with the...
  • Mobile Phones: Balancing Privacy and the Law

    Very few innovations have had such an immediate and indelible impact on human behavior as the mobile phone. But what’s even more fascinating is its blistering-fast evolution from brick-shaped audio handset to pocket-sized, do-it-all communications...
  • Hanson v. Globe Newspaper Co.

    Plaintiff alleged that the newspaper was guilty of libel for publishing the story of the prisoner using plaintiff's name, which was identical to the prisoner's except that the prisoner initials were A.P.H. and plaintiff's initials were P.H...
  • Ferguson v. Ferguson

    The wife filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and requested permanent custody of the minor child. The husband denied the adultery charge, counterclaimed for divorce based on habitual cruel and inhuman treatment; the husband also sought custody...