An accused was convicted, in an Oregon state court, on charges of kidnapping and attempted sodomy. After the accused was unsuccessful on direct appeal, lower state courts denied him collateral relief. The accused then petitioned for discretionary review...

In 1985, a Kentucky court sentenced Petitioner Simmons to death following a jury trial at which he was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of three Louisville area women in the early 1980s. The Kentucky courts affirmed his conviction and death sentence...

Hatchett filed a nursing-home, abuse-and-neglect complaint on July 14, 2009, as administrator of the Estate of Richard Hatchett, against a nursing home, the Lake Village Healthcare Center, LLC (Lake Village Healthcare), the nursing home's management...

Petitioner Albert Holland was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in Florida state court. After the state supreme court affirmed on direct appeal and denied collateral relief, Holland filed a pro se federal habeas corpus petition,...

The ERISA Plaintiffs sued Cardinal Health, Inc. ("Cardinal Health") on behalf of the Cardinal Health Profit Sharing, Retirement and Savings Plan ("Cardinal Plan") and the Syncor International Corporation Employees' Savings and...

In mass tort litigation, Crecension Acuna and more than 1,000 other plaintiffs filed two suits in Texas state courts against Brown & Root Inc. and numerous other defendants for alleged personal injuries arising from defendants' uranium mining...

Daniel Van Etten, an eighteen-year old football player from West Virginia University, died as a result of injuries sustained in a roll-over automobile accident. In April of 1998, his parents filed suit in the Southern District of Georgia, claiming that...

In 2003, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred 26 related cases to the United States District Court for the District of Maine. The cases alleged that defendants, various car manufacturers, dealers, and trade associations, had improperly...

Plaintiff Rhoads Industries, Inc. (“Rhoads”) specializes in building large-scale construction projects. It entered into a $ 5.584 million contract with defendant Building Materials Corporation of America, also known as GAF, to construct a...

Laura Zubulake, an equities trader who earned approximately $ 650,000 a year with UBS, sued her former employer, UBS, for gender discrimination, failure to promote, and retaliation under federal, state, and city law. She has repeatedly maintained that...