FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE SET BY THE CALIFORNIA legislature,which enacted a sweeping data privacy statute in June 2018, state legislatures have begun to enact, or at least propose, similar laws to give consumers greater control over their personal information...

Do you own a home? Have you read your homeowners insurance policy, painstakingly scouring through it to understand every nuance behind each word? Don’t be ashamed, not many people do. But that’s a big problem—as those who’ve...

In Texas, although juries were required to assess a capital defendant's "future dangerousness" before sentencing him to death, a capital defendant was prohibited from presenting truthful information to his jury about when he would be eligible...

Two subsidiaries of an American corporation formed joint ventures with a Saudi corporation. When a dispute arose over royalties that the Saudi corporation had charged the joint ventures, the Saudi corporation pre-emptively sued the subsidiaries in the...

Oklahoma law presumed that a criminal defendant was competent to stand trial unless he proved his incompetence by clear and convincing evidence. Applying that standard, a judge found petitioner Cooper competent on separate occasions before and during...

Plaintiff Marilyn Parducci was dismissed from her position as a high school teacher in the Montgomery public schools for assigning a certain short story to her junior (eleventh grade) English classes. Parducci subsequently filed a lawsuit in federal district...

On March 31, 1991, Kimberly Broussard bought a concert T-shirt at a concert of a pop music group, New Kids on the Block. The shirt was black with white lettering. On the front of the shirt, printed in letters approximately eight inches in height, were...

Warner-Jenkinson Co. (Petitioner) and Hilton Davis Chemical Co. (Respondent) both manufacture dyes from which impurities must be removed. Respondent's '746 patent , which issued in 1985, disclosed an improved purification process involving the...

Unique Concepts was the exclusive licensee under U.S. Patent 4,108,260 ( '260 patent ), entitled “Fabric Wall Coverings”. Contrary to its title, the ‘260 patent was directed to an assembly of border pieces used to attach a fabric...

Petitioner Barefoot was convicted of capital murder in a Texas state court after a jury trial. A separate sentencing hearing was then held before the same jury to determine whether the death penalty should be imposed. One of the questions submitted to...