• Chemical Waste Management v. Hunt

    Chemical Waste Management v. Hunt Supreme Court of the United States April 21, 1991, Argued ; June 1, 1992, Decided No. 91-471 Opinion  [*336]   [***128]   [**2011]  JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. Alabama imposes a hazardous waste disposal...
  • Betz v. Erie Ins. Exch.

    Betz v. Erie Ins. Exch. Superior Court of Pennsylvania August 20, 2008, Argued; September 22, 2008, Filed No. 3067 EDA 2007 Opinion  [**1249]  OPINION BY BENDER, J.:  [*P1]  Erie Insurance Exchange appeals the judgment in favor of Richard Betz and Donna...
  • Best & Co. v. Maxwell

    Best & Co. v. Maxwell Supreme Court of the United States November 22, 1940, Argued ; December 23, 1940, Decided No. 61 Opinion  [*454]   [**334]   [***277]  MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant, a New York retail merchandise...
  • Adventure Resources v. Holland

    Adventure Resources v. Holland United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit August 13, 1997, Argued ; February 27, 1998, Decided No. 96-1557, No. 96-1938 Opinion  [*790]  OPINION HALL, Senior Circuit Judge: The primary question before us in this...
  • Adamowicz v. Pergament (In re Lamparter Org.)

    Adamowicz v. Pergament (In re Lamparter Org.) United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York March 25, 1997, Decided ; March 26, 1997, FILED 96 CV 2059 (NG) Opinion  [*49]  OPINION AND ORDER GERSHON, United States District Judge: The...
  • Giacchetto v. Patchogue-Medford Union Free Sch. Dist.

    Plaintiff Theresa Giacchetto began working as an elementary education teacher for the Defendant Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District ("District") in 1996. In Dec. 2010, Giacchetto asserted that she was diagnosed with adult Attention...
  • Beth Israel Hosp. v. NLRB

    A nonprofit hospital whose employees were covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C.S. §§ 151 et. seq., had a written rule which, while allowing its employees to solicit and distribute literature to other employees during...
  • Mendel v. Carroll

    Plaintiff shareholder, Herbert Mendell, individually and on behalf of a class of shareholders (Mendell) filed an application for a mandatory preliminary injunction, specifically, an order directing defendant Board of Directors of Katy Industries, Inc...
  • Hillsboro Nat'l Bank v. Commissioner

    These two consolidated cases presented the question of the applicability of the tax benefit rule to two corporate tax situations. In the first case, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue assessed a deficiency against Hillsboro National Bank where the Bank...
  • Kahler v. Kansas

    Kansas charged petitioner James Kahler with capital murder after he shot and killed four family members. Prior to trial, Kahler had argued that Kansas’s insanity defense violated due process because it permits the State to convict a defendant whose...