In-house counsel frequently need to consider the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), which prohibits certain price discrimination in the sale of goods to competing resellers. Outside counsel may only be consulted by their clients on more tricky compliance issues...

H. Landau & Co. v. United States United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit September 18, 1989, Decided No. 89-1199 Opinion  [*323]  BISSELL, Circuit Judge H. Landau & Co. (Landau) appeals the United States Claims Court's judgment...

Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Calhoun Supreme Court of the United States October 31, 1995, Argued ; January 9, 1996, Decided No. 94-1387 Opinion  [*201]   [**621]   [***583]  JUSTICE GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court. Twelve-year-old Natalie Calhoun...

Cook v. Avien, Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit March 28, 1978 Nos. 77-1106, 77-1107 Opinion  [*689]  LAY, Circuit Judge These appeals arise from claims brought under the Securities Act of 1933, 2 the Securities Exchange Act of...

L.W., a minor student at a high school operated by defendant Douglas County School District ("District"), engaged in a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages sent from his home to his friends. In the messages, L.W. bragged...

Frank O. Seay, Jr., his wife Sharon G. Seay, and step-daughter, Sheri Lynn Seay, departed Phoenix, Arizona, in their travel camper for what was scheduled to be a two-week camping trip in Baja California, Mexico. When the Seays failed to return to Phoenix...

Respondent-plaintiff insured, while lifting a milk can into an ice box, slipped and fell, the can striking him on the abdomen and causing such pain that he was unable to get up. A surgeon found a perforation at the junction of the stomach and the duodenum...

Respondent, a former government employee, filed a suit against petitioner, a former United States President, for retaliatory discharge. After petitioner's motion to dismiss based upon a claim of absolute immunity was denied, petitioner filed a motion...

On 1984, the Board of Directors of Household International, Inc. adopted the Rights Plan by a fourteen to two vote. The Plan provides that Household common stockholders are entitled to the issuance of one Right per common share under certain triggering...

Appellants, William Kenneth Banks, Garry Copeland, Fernando Cmubo Blow, Bruce Elliott Boone, and Samuel Collins, were convicted and sentenced for conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine and for various related substantive offenses...