Rockwell Graphic Systems (Rockwell), a manufacturer of newspaper printing presses and supplier of parts, sued DEV Industries, Inc. (DEV) a competing manufacturer, and Robert Fleck, a former employee of Rockwell, for misappropriation of trade secrets....

Plaintiff Joanne C. Williams filed an action against defendant Mia McCoy claiming personal injury resulting from a 1997 automobile accident between the two litigants. Based upon a pre-trial motion by defendant, the trial court instructed plaintiff not...

Defendant Sylvester A. Ploof owned an island and boat dock on Lake Champlain. While plaintiff Henry Putnam was on his boat on the lake with his family, a storm arose. Putnam secured his boat to Ploof's dock to keep it safe during the storm. Ploof's...

Under particular conditions, the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C.S. § 3141, et seq. ("Act"), permitted a federal court to detain an arrestee without bail, pending trial, on the ground of such an arrestee's dangerousness to any other...

Plaintiff Chad Hudgens was an employee of defendant Prosper, Inc. and under the direct supervision of defendant Joshua Christopherson. In 2007, Christopherson asked for volunteers for a new motivational exercise, where Hudgens volunteered to prove his...

In a trademark litigation concerning the marketing of pasta sauce, the defendants submitted a false affidavit. Thereafter, the trial judge, sua sponte, initiated a post-trial Rule 11 sanction proceeding because the lawyer permitted the client to submit...

Plaintiff clients, who desired to purchase a vacant lot to construct a house, retained defendant attorney to represent them in the purchase. Defendant, who was concerned that the contiguous lot rule might invalidate the lot purchase, included a contingency...

On the evening of July 3, 2000, Lewis Gagne, Donald Swathwood, and David Stout, were out for a good time. When their car ran out of gas, they walked to the house of Gagne’s former girlfriend, P.C., and found her there. P.C., who had been drinking...

A Texas attorney appeared pro hac vice for plaintiffs in a class action and sent a communication to prospective class members that contained at least one misrepresentation. The trial court issued an order to show cause as to why the attorney's pro...

In a previous ruling, it was determined that Don King, doing business as Don King Productions, breached his agreement with Vladimir Hrunov and Andrey Ryabinskiy, doing business as World of Boxing (WOB), when King failed to cause Guillermo Jones to participate...