In the mid-1970s, plaintiffs, City of Yonkers and Yonkers Community Development Agency, adopted an urban renewal plan to allow Otis Elevator Company (Otis) to stay in the city. Otis stayed in the city for a number of years; however, in the early 1980s...

A building engineer was employed at a nonprofit gymnasium that was operated by nonprofit corporations affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but was open to the public. The engineer was discharged because he failed to qualify...

Appellant SCI Minnesota Funeral Services, Inc. (SCI) sold Crystal Lake Cemetery Association (Crystal Lake) to appellant Corinthian Enterprises, LLC (Corinthian) in a stock sale agreement. Corinthian subsequently sold and assigned Crystal Lake to respondent...

Under § 1402 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.S. § 924(e), an accused who was convicted, under 18 U.S.C.S. § 922(g), of unlawful possession of a firearm was subject to a sentence enhancement if the accused has three prior convictions...

These appeals were taken from orders of the United States District Court, which dismissed actions brought by appellant African American citizens to obtain declaratory judgments and injunctive relief against the enforcement of racial segregation in the...

While David A. Egelhoff was married to petitioner Donna Egelhoff, he designated her as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy and pension plan provided by his employer and governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Shortly...

Laurie Chadwick brought a claim of sex discrimination under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. , against WellPoint, Inc. and Anthem Health Plans of Maine, Inc. (collectively, WellPoint), after she was denied a promotion. She alleged that...

Hi My query relates to conflicting clauses within a company's articles of association. In particular, where the articles of a charitable company has a provision prohibiting the employment of its directors but also contains conditions in which it can...

Plaintiff Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. ("Motel") filed an action in federal district court against defendants United States and Robert F. Kennedy, as the Attorney General of the United States (collectively, "Government"), seeking to...

Defendant Bernhard Goetz was charged with attempted murder and other felonies based on his alleged shooting of four youths on a subway. At trial in New York state court, one of the prosecution's complaining witnesses had invoked his Fifth Amendment...