Appellee manufacturers, who were 13 large firms of chemicals used to manufacture pesticides, brought suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to challenge...

Defendant James M. Adcock, armed with a two-by-four, entered his daughter’s bedroom where he found his daughter’s boyfriend, Matthew Poliak lying alone on the bed. As Poliak began to arise from the bed, Adcock, without warning, struck the...

Appellee Dignity Partners, Inc. (“Dignity”) was in the business of buying the rights to life insurance proceeds from people with AIDS, paying a lump sum up front and taking over the responsibility for paying the premiums. On February 14, 1996...

This was an action of assumpsit, to recover the sum of 380 dollars, expended, by the plaintiffs, at the special instance and request of the defendants, for the support of Betsey Cooke, the wife of Joseph Cooke, and their five children, from the 8th of...

Plaintiff incurred tax liability under the Child Labor Tax Law (Law), 40 Stat. 1057, 1138 (1919), by permitting a child to work in its factory. After paying the tax bill under protest, plaintiff brought suit challenging the constitutionality of the Law...

Defendant used a four-party line to make numerous telephone calls to a woman, a stranger to him, as often as three times a week, at any hour of the day or night, for a period of over a month. His language on the calls was obscene, lewd and filthy. He...

Appellee social services director denied financial assistance to three of appellant’s six children because of their undocumented immigration status. Appellee based the financial assistance amount available to appellant on the needs of her three...

We sat down with Alison Manchester, Vice President of Product Management, and Huiling Chen, Principal Product Manager, on the LexisNexis® Shepard’s® team to learn more about the history of Shepard’s C itation Service, how Lexis®...

Appellant Project Release is a not-for-profit corporation composed of persons who are or have been in New York State mental hospitals as either voluntary, involuntary, or emergency patients. Appellant Carrie Greene was a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric...

Robert M. Cavanaugh filed suit under Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51 et. seq. for personal injuries sustained as a result of a collision between the two railroad companies. The railroad companies counterclaimed for...