Defendant Luis Diaz-Lopez (Diaz) was a citizen of Mexico. In 2009, a Border Patrol Agent found and arrested Diaz on a road in California, north of the United States-Mexico border. The government charged Diaz under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) with being a...

During most of the time that petitioner Ledbetter was employed by respondent Goodyear, salaried employees at the plant where she worked were given or denied raises based on performance evaluations. Ledbetter submitted a questionnaire to the Equal Employment...

Since about 1975, the educational curriculum at Columbia High School, which was manages by defendant Vigil School Board, included a course entitled "Humanities to 1500," which was offered as part of a two-semester survey of Western thought,...

By: Jerred Blanchard Baker & McKenzie LLP Background On December 20, 2017, for the first time in 30 years, Congress passed major tax legislation in the form of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Pub. Law No. 115-97 (Act), signed into law by President...

By: S.H. Spencer Compton and Diane Schottenstein EVERY REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY HEADLINE TODAY SEEMS to trumpet the decline of retail leasing and the advent of e-commerce: the so-called “Amazon Effect.” 1 One recent article recounts the impact...

Roberto Morales, a United States citizen by birth, moved from Mexico to Texas to live with his sister, petitioner Oralia Martinez, for the primary purpose of attending school in the McAllen Independent School District, a public free school while living...

Appellants, a land owner and his agent, challenged a judgment which entered a jury's verdict in favor of appellee cultivator for the value of her one-half undivided interest in the crops she planted pursuant to a contract with the owner and for exemplary...

Copart, Inc. v. Sparta Consulting, Inc. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California September 10, 2018, Decided; September 10, 2018, Filed No. 2:14-cv-0046-KJM-CKD Opinion  [*968]  ORDER In this order the court resolves four issues...

Ridley v. Costco Wholesale Corp. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit January 8, 2007, Argued ; February 5, 2007, Filed No. 05-5134; No. 06-1690 Opinion  [*132]  OPINION OF THE COURT RENDELL, Circuit Judge . Hilton Ridley sued his former...

Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co. Court of Appeals of New York February 24, 1928, Argued ; May 29, 1928, Decided No Number in Original Opinion  [*340]   [**99]  Plaintiff was standing on a platform of defendant's railroad after buying a ticket to go...