Tenants filed a complaint against landlord alleging breach of the warranty of habitability. Tenants filed a motion for summary judgment and for judgment on the pleadings, which was denied by the trial court. Plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court of...

Appellee private primary schools filed actions against appellant public officials, challenging the constitutionality of the Compulsory Education Act (Act), 1922 Or. Laws § 5259, under U.S. Const. amend. XIV and seeking to enjoin its enforcement....

A case was field for intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault, and negligence claims against a tortfeasor for injuries that she sustained in an automobile accident. The tortfeasor screamed vile and threatening obscenities at the injured motorist...

The State of Ohio enacted a statute providing that complainant, the Bank of the United States, was pursuing its operations contrary to state law. The State levied a tax on the bank and authorized the state auditor to seize the levied tax. Despite an injunction...

A case was filed against defendant for violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 2320 , due to his sale of counterfeit watches. He was convicted by the district court for trafficking in counterfeit goods. Defendant appealed to the United States Court of Appeals...

The people of Arkansas voted to amend the state constitution to impose term limits upon the individuals it elected to Congress. Ark. Const. amend. LXXIII limited persons seeking office in the House of Representatives to three terms and in the Senate to...

A store owner prepared to close his gasoline station. He was in his office computing the receipts and disbursements of the day while an attendant in an adjacent storage room deposited money in a vault. Upon hearing someone yell "robbery," the...

A man was convicted of murder in the second degree for shooting the victim in the front yard of his house. The defendant appealed his conviction for second degree murder. He argued that the lower court erred in not instructing the jury on the defense...

Defendant was charged with open murder in connection with a suicide death. Defendant filed a motion to quash the information on the ground that providing a weapon to a person who subsequently used it to commit suicide did not constitute the crime of murder...

A nonprofit corporation, the members of which were owners of beach-front property, brought an action against the local governments and a state agency, alleging that the governments' beach restoration projects approved by the state were unconstitutional...