Defendant NCR Corporation, a large computer company, was incorporated in Maryland and has its principal place of business in Ohio. Defendant maintains at least eight offices in New York and conducts substantial business there. Plaintiff, American Telephone...

Kurns v. R.R. Friction Prods. Corp. Supreme Court of the United States November 9, 2011, Argued; February 29, 2012, Decided No. 10-879 Opinion  [*628]  Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to determine whether petitioners'...

A pre-enforcement challenge to the constitutionality of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (Act) was presented in a Federal District Court action wherein the plaintiffs were an association of coal producers engaged in surface coal...

The police found Danny Boyd Solmonson unconscious in the driver's seat of a Chevrolet Cavalier station wagon with an open can of beer between his legs at 3:45 a.m. The car was parked just outside the white fog lines but was still on the road pavement...

After a patent application purportedly had matured into patent, Respondent Genentech, Inc., an assignee of the patent, sent its licensee, Petitioner MedImmune, Inc. a letter stating that MedImmune owed royalties on the drug sales to Genentech. Although...

After being arrested on a state criminal charge, and after being informed of his rights as required by Miranda v. Arizona , petitioner Edwards was questioned by the police on Jan. 19, 1976, until he said that he wanted an attorney. Questioning then ceased...

Joan Hetes, plaintiff, was employed by Schefman & Miller Law Office as a receptionist from September, 1983, until May, 1984. Hetes did not enter into a written employment contract with the Law Office; however, in her conversations with the representatives...

Defendant bought a city lot in May 1906. Defendant did not fill in the grantee's name on the deed until shortly before it was recorded on December 16, 1910. In April 1909, real estate dealers paid the same grantor for a quitclaim deed to the same...

Plaintiff Motion Picture Patents Company, who had title to a patent, filed an action against defendant corporations, Universal Film Manufacturing Company et al., alleging patent infringement regarding the use of a motion picture exhibiting machine. There...

People Against Police Violence v. City of Pittsburgh United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit December 11, 2007, Argued; March 17, 2008, Opinion Filed NO. 06-4457 Opinion  [*228]  OPINION OF THE COURT STAPLETON, Circuit Judge : In this appeal...