Plaintiff lessor appealed an order from the Hennepin County District Court (Minnesota) granting defendant oil company's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in the lessor's action to recover rents allegedly owed because of possession...

On the evening of January 5, 1993, Tracie Reeves and Molly Coffman, both twelve years of age and students at West Carroll Middle School, spoke on the telephone and decided to kill their homeroom teacher, Janice Geiger. The girls agreed that Coffman would...

Plaintiffs' son had surgery for an injury to his hand. He lapsed into a coma during the post-operative recovery period. He remained in a coma for ten days before awakening as a severely brain-damaged quadriplegic who would need extensive care for...

Defendant doctor performed surgery on plaintiff, the purpose of which was to avoid future pregnancies. However plaintiff again became pregnant after the surgery. There was a one-year statute of limitations, plaintiff filed an action eleven months after...

Business interests involved in the manufacture and utilization of plastic milk containers filed suit in a Minnesota district court seeking to enjoin enforcement of a Minnesota statute banning the retail sale of milk in plastic nonreturnable, nonrefillable...

Plaintiff instituted an action in replevin against defendant for the recovery of a violin, violin bow, and violin case. The plaintiff alleged that the property was stolen from plaintiff in January, 1933, and that in March, 1938, plaintiff discovered it...

Section 109(a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) ( 42 USCS 7409(a) ) requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for various air pollutants. Under 109(b)(1) of the CAA ...

In 1983, for the purpose of ameliorating an extreme fractionation problem attending a former federal policy that had resulted in multiple ownership of single parcels of allotted Indian lands, Congress enacted the original version of 207 of the Indian...

The longshoreman was killed while working aboard the shipowner's vessel in Florida's navigable waters. His widow filed a case against the shipowner for damages for wrongful death on the basis of unseaworthiness. The trial court dismissed the complaint...

Plaintiff city challenged the appeals court's reversal of defendant business owner's conviction for violating plaintiff's zoning ordinance. For many years, defendant had operated a restaurant in a residential zone as a preexisting non-conforming...