Respondent Arkoma Associates ("Arkoma"), a limited partnership organized under the laws of Arizona, brought suit on a contract dispute in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against petitioners C. Tom Carden...

On Sept. 21, 1983, attorneys for plaintiff-appellee Robin Bright filed a products liability action in federal district court against nine pharmaceutical manufacturers and unknown defendants. These defendants were involved in the manufacture, sale and...

The seller sent a proposal to the buyer to manufacture and sell a water filtration tank. The buyer signed and returned the acceptance. The buyer later sent a letter desiring to cancel the order. The seller stated that it had already built the tank and...

Plaintiff Sharon Kaytor was employed by defendant Electric Boat Corporation ("EBC"). Kaytor alleged that a supervisor, after she spurned his sexual advances, made explicit or implicit references to her "ass" or genitalia, stared at...

The decedent, John Washington, Sr., was electrocuted when he attempted to move a citizens band radio antenna under an uninsulated electrical wire that ran across his yard. The wire was owned and maintained by defendant Louisiana Power & Light Company...

After a jury trial in Maine state court, defendant Stillman E. Wilbur, Jr., was found guilty of murder. The case against him rested on his own pretrial statement and on circumstantial evidence showing that he fatally assaulted Claude Hebert in the latter's...

Plaintiff Gross Valentino Printing Company ("GVPC") and defendant Frederick S. Clarke, d/b/a Cinefantastique ("Clarke"), entered into a contract for the printing of a magazine published by Clarke. GVPC later informed Clarke that the...

Plaintiff Italian corporation entered into an agreement with defendant New York corporation where it would provide boots to satisfy an agreement between defendant and a Russian company. After a disagreement among the parties, plaintiff brought an action...

In 1987, plaintiff Michael Santillo, a former police officer, ran for the office of district justice in Montgomery County. Prior to the election, a young woman informed the press that eight years before, when she was sixteen years old, Santillo made unwanted...

At about 1:00 am on June 20, 1967, while Ronald E. Wilkins was working in a store alone, defendant Robert Gary Dessureault, through the use of intimidation, took the contents of the cash register. Early the next morning, an informant telephoned the police...