Defendant company developed a system where a person could purchase and sell plans of the company. What the purchaser was really buying was the chance to collect a commission by bringing other purchasers to the company. Plaintiff Securities and Exchange...

Respondent Marvel Entertainment's corporate predecessor agreed to purchase petitioner Stephen Kimble's patent for a Spider-Man toy in exchange for a lump sum plus a 3% royalty on future sales. The agreement set no end date for royalties. As the...

The day after President Ford signed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act into law, former President Nixon instituted an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, invoking its exclusive jurisdiction...

Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act provides that employees shall have the right to join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively, and "to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other...

A Virginia jury convicted petitioner Williams of robbery and capital murder, and, after a sentencing hearing, found a probability of future dangerousness and unanimously fixed his punishment at death. Concluding that such punishment was "proper"...

Plaintiff Charles Smith, a vocal critic of Defendant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) created websites displaying designs and slogans that negatively parodied Wal-Mart’s registered marks. Smith also sold novelty items printed with graphics that...

In the three actions underlying the appeal, petitioners servicemen, while on active duty and not on furlough, sustained injuries due to the negligence of others in the armed forces. Two courts of appeals affirmed the trial courts' dismissal of the...

Defendant Keyshawn Jones was overpaid because a payroll processor accidentally typed "$120,000" instead of "$1,200" into a payment processing system, resulting in a total payment (after deductions) of $118,729.49. The next morning...

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) owns certain patents that it has licensed to Becton Dickinson (Becton). Becton has, in turn, sublicensed these patents to Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter). In April 1992, Plaintiff CellPro filed a complaint in this...

Plaintiff Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academy) brought an action in the district court for copyright and trademark infringement and related state law claims against Defendant Creative House Promotions, Inc. (Creative House) for marketing...