The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a et seq. (the Act), prohibitted federal agencies from disclosing "any record which was contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency" without the...

Defendant Furman was convicted of murder, and defendant Jackson was convicted of rape in separate trials in Georgia state court. Defendant Branch was convicted of rape in Texas state court. Each defendant was sentenced to the death. Defendants' appeals...

Plaintiff Michael Cocchiara, who worked as a salesperson for defendants Lithia Motors, Inc. and Lithia Motors Support Services, Inc. ("Lithia"), informed his manager that he was leaving to work for another company. He had been employed for nearly...

Defendant Jose A. Aybar, Jr., a New York resident, was operating a 2002 Ford Explorer that was registered in New York when one of its tires allegedly failed, causing the vehicle to become unstable and overturn and roll multiple times. Three of the six...

Appellant Chapadeau was a public school teacher who was arrested on June 10, 1971 and charged with criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument and criminal possession of a dangerous drug, heroin, in the fourth degree. The next day, respondent's...

Defendants commenced operations for the drilling of a well on the bank of Bayou Pierre, between the ordinary high-water mark and the ordinary low-water mark, and between the upper and lower boundary lines of plaintiff's land. Defendants based their...

Petitioner Heath hired two men to kill his wife. They kidnapped petitioner's wife from her home in Alabama and drove a short distance to Georgia where they shot her and abandoned her body in Georgia. Petitioner was charged with murder in Georgia and...

Leopold Meinrath is a Belgian entrepreneur engaged in the marketing and distribution of computers and computer-related products, principally in the Benelux countries and France. He commenced a suit to recover payments of "bonus compensation"...

A pilot, who contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1985, applied for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) medical certificates in 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 without disclosing his HIV status or his medications. He was charged with...

The wife, Charlotte Mahoney, was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband, Howard Mahoney. Howard died intestate and the probate court determined that it would be unjust to allow Charlotte to profit from her husband’s death and decreed...