Appellant employee was 17 when he went to work on the employer's automobile lot, and he was injured when a coworker sprayed him on the buttocks area with an air hose. Appellant brought an action against the appellee employer alleging hostile and unsafe...

Defendant husband wrote and signed a contract to sell his farm to plaintiffs and persuaded defendant wife to sign by telling her the contract was a joke on plaintiffs. When plaintiffs attempted to finalize sale, defendants attempted to deny contract on...

Plaintiff neighbors had long lived on a dead-end road, and enjoyed the use of their respective properties. However, the defendant, a dog owner, later purchased property on the road near them, built a home and dog kennels on the property, and began raising...

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 victim went to the defendant to collect on a debt he was owed. The defendant offered either a sum of money slightly less than what was owed, or the return of the goods. The victim accepted the money then demanded the balance. The defendant then assaulted...