• Stokes v. Harrell

    Stokes v. Harrell Supreme Court of Arkansas June 2, 1986, Opinion delivered No. 85-204 Opinion  [*179]   [**755]  Larry and Sylvia Stokes have appealed from a directed verdict on behalf of Sybil Harrell, doing business as The Harrell Agency. In 1980 the...
  • Merit Music Serv., Inc. v. Sonneborn

    Appellant, Merit Music Service, Inc., was a Maryland corporation engaged in the business of leasing coin-operated vending and amusement machines in various locations in and around Baltimore City. Appellees, Sidney Sonneborn and Jennie Sonneborn, his wife...
  • Commissioner v. Fink

    A husband and wife, who were the dominant shareholders of a closely held corporation, voluntarily surrendered some of their shares to the corporation in an effort to increase its attractiveness to outside investors. As a result, their combined percentage...
  • Maritrans GP, Inc. v. Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz

    Appellants were Maritrans GP Inc., Maritrans Partners L.P. and Maritrans Operating Partners L.P. (collectively, Maritrans) was a Philadelphia-based public company in the business of transporting petroleum products along the East and Gulf coasts of the...
  • Lincoln v. Vigil

    Lincoln v. Vigil Supreme Court of the United States March 3, 1993, Argued ; May 24, 1993, Decided No. 91-1833 Opinion  [*184]   [***107]   [**2027]  JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. For several years in the late 1970's and early...
  • Belnap v. Iasis Healthcare

    Belnap v. Iasis Healthcare United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit January 5, 2017, Filed No. 15-4010 Opinion  [*1274]  HOLMES , Circuit Judge. LeGrand P. Belnap, M.D., is a surgeon at the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center ("SLRMC"...
  • Trump v. Vance

    In 2019, the New York County District Attorney’s Office—acting on behalf of a grand jury—served a subpoena duces tecum on Mazars USA, LLP, the personal accounting firm of President Donald J. Trump, for financial records relating to the...
  • Farmers' Loan and Trust Company v. Winthrop

    Decedent Helen C. Bostwick created a trust, with the intention of transferring additional sums into the trust. Decedent's death occurred prior to completion of the transfers. The trustee and the remaindermen under the trust and the legatees under...
  • Stewart v. Abend

    The author of a pre-existing work agreed to assign the rights in his renewal copyright term to petitioners, owners of a derivative work, but the author died before the commencement of the renewal period. The author's executor renewed the copyright...
  • Jacobs v. Clark Cty. Sch. Dist.

    In 2003, defendant Clark County School District ("District") promulgated Regulation 5131 (Regulation), which created a standard dress code for all Clark County students and established a means by which individual schools in the District could...