Plaintiff was a corporation designing new fabric patterns each season. Plaintiff’s products were not copyrighted under the Copyright Act. Defendant Corporation copied one of plaintiff’s popular designs. Subsequently, plaintiff sued defendant...

Defendants: (1) filed a motion for discovery or for dismissal of the indictment; (2) alleged that they had been selected for federal prosecution because they were African-American; and (3) offered an affidavit with an accompanying "study" to...

Criminal defendants, who were convicted of counterfeiting trademarks, challenged their convictions on the grounds that the Act of August 14, 1876, 19 Stat. 141, was unconstitutional. Petitioners sought review of their convictions under what was known...

Plaintiff Thermodyne Food Service Products Inc. was engaged in manufacturing and selling food service products and systems. It became known for its development of ovens which utilized Thermodyne technology for transferring heat to food items. Plaintiff...

White v. Mass. Council of Constr. Emplrs Supreme Court of the United States November 1, 1982, Argued ; February 28, 1983, Decided No. 81-1003 Opinion  [*205]   [***4]   [**1043]  JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.  [****4]  In 1979...

Seetransport Wiking Trader Schiffarhtsgesellschaft MBH & Co., Kommanditgesellschaft v. Navimpex Centrala Navala United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit October 23, 1992, Argued ; March 16, 1993, Decided Docket No. 92-7580 Opinion  [...

J ohn Benjamin Shymanovitz was a middle-school guidance counselor. He began taking a group of boys who attended the school on outings, such as hiking and camping trips, and sometimes had them sleep over at his home. Shymanovitz was charged with sexually...

Defendant, a New York corporation, applied to the Deutsche Bank of Germany, through its New York representative, for loans to finance the work being done by its subsidiary. The bank agreed that it would make the loans by cabling to the credit of its New...

The truck owner filed a product liability action against the truck manufacturer alleging that the truck he purchased had a dangerously defective wheel, which resulted in an accident. The truck owner’s version of the evidence is that the wheel came...

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