Petitioner police officers sought review of the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit awarding postoffer costs to respondent administrator pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 68 after the administrator recovered a judgment less...

Plaintiff nurse appealed from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department (New York), which reversed a judgment for her in her personal injury suit against defendant hospital management corporation, granted...

Defendant husband and plaintiff wife each appealed from a judgment of the Civil District Court, Division F, Parish of Orleans (Louisiana), which partitioned the community of acquets and gains existing between them. The couple was married in 1968, but...

Appellant landowners brought an action against appellee golf course for damages caused by golf balls spiking their adjoining property. Appellants claimed that appellee trespassed and was negligent in its design of the course. Judgment was initially entered...

Defendant car seat manufacturer sought review of an order from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, in and for the County of Park (Montana), which awarded compensatory and punitive damages to plaintiff parents in a product liability action...

Defendants were convicted of a murder for hire committed in the course of a cocaine-selling operation. One defendant was convicted for first-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon (ADW), and conspiracy to distribute cocaine; while a codefendant...

Appellant Indian tribe sought to overturn the decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, which dismissed appellant's action against appellee federal agency because appellant had failed to join indispensable...

Appellant challenged a judgment from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which dismissed his complaint for assault and battery allegedly committed by appellee transit system through its employees. Appellant alleged that, while standing on...

In a products liability case, plaintiff husband and wife sued defendant drug company. The case arose from the wife's mother's ingestion of Diethylstilbestrol (DES) while she was pregnant with the wife in 1962. The drug company removed the case...

Appellees arranged to have installed in each of their locations cold drink vending machines owned by a vendor, and this arrangement was formalized by contracts for terms of one year. The vendor's assets were subsequently purchased by appellant and...