Polaris Innovations Ltd. v. Kingston Tech. Co. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit January 31, 2020, Decided 2018-1831 Opinion  [*820]  Per Curiam. In its opening brief, Polaris Innovations Limited argues that the final written decision...

Plaintiff Wolf invested her money in defendant investment firm where defendant Ford was employed as a stockbroker. Plaintiff signed a Discretionary Agreement authorizing the defendant to buy, sell and trade securities on her behalf. Years later, plaintiff...

Plaintiff Penthouse International, Ltd., a developer, brought suit against defendant Virginia bank, Dominion Federal Savings & Loan Assoc., for anticipatory breach of contract. anPlaintiff had arranged for an Ohio bank to finance a casino project...

Appellant employee was interrogated in a windowless room by the respondent employer's personnel manager and security guards, and confined there against her will for over an hour. Alleging that an employee subject to false imprisonment at the hands...

The evidence showed that defendant Henry Prolow, while in a saloon, became involved in a controversy with others. He and the others were told to leave the saloon if they were going to fight. Defendant left the saloon, found a revolver, returned to the...

On Jan. 3, 1975, plaintiff Janice Pacura was a passenger in her own automobile, which was being driven by Charles Whiddon. The automobile, which was not covered by any kind of insurance, was involved in an accident. Pacura mobile was injured, resulting...

The State of New York recognized the same-sex marriage of New York residents Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, who wed in Ontario, Canada, in 2007. When Spyer died in 2009, she left her entire estate to Windsor. Windsor sought to claim the federal estate...

Appellant, Mary M. Colonna (Mother), and Appellee Robert J. Colonna (Father), were married in 1983 and separated in 1996. They obtained a final divorce decree from the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) on March 19, 1999. At the time...

Plaintiff hotel guests sued defendant motel chain owner, claiming willful and wanton conduct under Illinois law in allowing hotel guests to be attacked by bedbugs. A jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern...

The defendant was convicted of felony murder and arson. He appealed arguing that the predicate felony, armed home invasion, should have merged into the killing of the victim. Essentially, he argued that the same acts that resulted in the victim’s...