Plaintiff was babysitting for defendants, and was attacked by the defendants' cat. The attack occurred while the plaintiff was caring for defendants' children. Plaintiff sued defendants, and sought to recover for her personal injuries. At the...

Plaintiffs got into an accident while driving a car produced by defendant. Plaintiffs sued defendant under theories of products liability and fraud. Over two years, the parties engaged in lengthy discovery disputes. Among other unreasonable tactics, Plaintiffs...

Petitioner was convicted of fatally shooting her common-law husband during an argument. Petitioner had raised the issue of self-defense at trial. The trial court refused to admit the testimony of expert witnesses concerning "battered wife syndrome...

Appellant war hero brought an action against appellee brewery alleging that the latter misappropriated his name and likeness for commercial purposes. One of the brewery's subsidiaries produced a documentary recounting the exploits of Hispanic Congressional...

Defendant was convicted of manslaughter for the murder of a woman. Defendant was also, in a separate indictment, charged with the murder of a fertilized implanted fetus in the womb of the woman. After the manslaughter conviction, and after the trial judge...

Two defendants, a boyfriend and girlfriend, were tried jointly but to separate juries on burglary and robbery charges arising from an incident at a motel. The trial court instructed the jury that an occupied motel room, such as that where the crimes took...

Defendant was arrested pursuant to a sting operation, in which a government agent impersonated a 14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room. He was arrested after the purported girl agreed to have sex with him, but before defendant made arrangements to...

Petitioner employee was a special police officer assigned to respondent employer's depot when he left the guardhouse to purchase a soda from a vending machine installed by the employer in the employees' lounge. He did not report that he was leaving...

Plaintiff customer stopped at the defendant store. While standing in front of a magazine rack perusing books, plaintiff customer was struck on the foot by a can of paint. The can had apparently fallen from a shelf beneath the magazine rack. Plaintiff...

Since the enactment of the DTSA in 2016, courts have seen an overall decrease in trade secret cases filed, while the proportion of cases involving DTSA claims has increased Menlo Park, CA — Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its...