After the local police opted not to process the arrest of the decedent, who was arrested by national park rangers for grabbing women and urinating in public at a fair that occurred at a national park, the park rangers decided to release the decedent away...

A nonresident of Delaware, who owned stock in a corporation which was incorporated in Delaware but which maintained its principal office in Arizona, brought a shareholder's derivative action in the Court of Chancery for New Castle County, Delaware...

In a class action brought, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, by two African American police officers against the then Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the Chief of the District's Metropolitan Police Department...

A Washington state statute enacted in 1975 provided that a person was guilty of the felony of promoting a suicide attempt when the person knowingly caused or aided another person to attempt suicide. In 1994, an action was brought in the United States...

Defendant intended to rob a payroll man, however, the police intervened and arrested defendant and his accomplices before they had located the man they wanted to rob. Defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree, and he appealed his conviction...

A widow sued in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that her husband's death resulted from his exposure to asbestos manufactured or distributed by 15 named corporations. One corporation moved for summary judgment...

The defendant's wife suffered from numerous physical ailments, some of which had been diagnosed as terminal. She fell and broke two bones in her arm, but the defendant did not seek medical help for her until two days after the fall. By that time,...

Defendant Frank, a Sunday school teacher, and Plaintiff had sexual intercourse twice. At the time, Defendant was 40 and Plaintiff was 15. Defendant Frank subsequently pled guilty to sexual assault with a 10-year age difference.

Plaintiffs were fundamentalist Baptist church schools, the churches' pastors, principals, teachers, parents and students. They challenged the district court's findings as to reporting and teacher certification requirements, and the denial of the...

Defendant shipowner filed a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in an action filed by plaintiff longshoreman pursuant to the 1972 Amendments to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (Act).