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    Van Cleef & Arpels Logistics, S.A. v. Landau Jewelry United States District Court for the Southern District of New York April 18, 2008, Decided; April 21, 2008, Filed 07 Civ. 564 (SAS) Opinion  [*357]  OPINION AND ORDER SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, U.S.D...

  • Bank of N.Y. Mellon v Dieudonne

    Bank of N.Y. Mellon v Dieudonne Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department March 13, 2019, Decided 2017-08956 Opinion  [**356]   [*35]  Miller, J. This appeal presents an issue of first impression for this Court. The plaintiff in...

  • United States v. Solomon

    United States v. Solomon United States District Court for the Southern District of New York April 15, 1963 No Number in Original Opinion  [*835]  Martin Solomon, one of the abovenamed defendants, is charged in two counts with violations of Title 21 U...

  • United States v. Gantt

    United States v. Gantt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 7, 1999, Argued and Submitted, Pasadena, California; January 12, 1999, Submission withdrawn; May 25, 1999, Resubmitted ; June 7, 1999, Filed No. 98-50171 Opinion  [*990...

  • Graham v. Connor

    Graham v. Connor Supreme Court of the United States February 21, 1989, Argued ; May 15, 1989, Decided No. 87-6571 Opinion  [*388]   [***450]   [**1867]  CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to decide what constitutional...

  • Defontes v. Dell Computs. Corp.

    Plaintiffs Mary DeFontes and Nicholas Long purported to be representatives of a class of persons who purchased computers from defendants Dell Computers Corporation and affiliated others (collectively, "Dell"). Dell was a Texas corporation shipping...

  • Wishnatsky v. Huey

    On January 10, 1996, David Huey, an assistant attorney general, was engaged in a conversation with attorney Peter Crary in Crary’s office. Without knocking or announcing his entry, Martin Wishnatsky, who was performing paralegal work for Crary,...

  • Applebaum v. Avaya, Inc.

    The corporation initiated a reverse stock split that would have the effect of eliminating shareholders who did not own at least one share after calculation of the reverse stock split. Plaintiff shareholders contended that this unequal treatment of stockholders...

  • People v. Harris

    Two cases of attempted murder were consolidated for appeal. The first defendant sought review of the judgment of the Appellate Court for the Fourth District (Illinois), which determined that the jury instructions given in that attempted murder action...

  • Keeling v. Hars

    Plaintiff brought suit against defendant asserting claims for copyright infringement, breach of contract, and tortious interference with contract, based on the parody stage adaptation of the movie.