With extensive federal assistance and supervision, the Mescalero Apache Tribe established a comprehensive scheme for managing the reservation's fish and wildlife resources. Federally approved tribal ordinances regulated in detail the conditions under...

Stone Container Corporation, is a large manufacturer of pulp, paper, and paper products. One of the tanks in one of Stone's plants exploded when a thin area of its steel shell ruptured during the high-pressure operation of the tank. The explosion...

On August 11, 2007, Brian Hunter was working as an electrician in international waters aboard the M/V JASCON 9. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. ("Chevron"), a defendant in this case, hired Dynamic Industries, Inc. ("Dynamic"), to perform certain...

In 1969 ICM Realty bought an apartment complex in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, from Walter Kassuba, to whom ICM leased back the land and sold the improvements. He went broke, however, and in 1975 ICM leased the land to Kusmiersky, a "work-out specialist...

On January 6, 2021, a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to prevent a Joint Session of Congress from certifying the electoral college votes designating Joseph R. Biden the 46th President...

Plaintiffs Barnette et al. belong to a sect known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses and have children attending the public schools of West Virginia. They instituted the instant petition for injunction on behalf of themselves and their children and all...

The Allens were married in Lincoln Parish (Ruston) on December 6, 1986, and made their home in Jackson Parish (Jonesboro). Prior to their marriage, Mildred Joe Neal was a healthy 42-year-old woman who ran two to six miles every day. As a single parent...

In 2003, Steiner, a real estate developer, was interested in purchasing and developing several residences on a 10-acre portion of Thexton’s 12.29-acre parcel of land. County approvals for a parcel split and development permits were required. Thexton...

Plaintiffs Linnet Devlin and Lee S. Ames filed a lawsuit under the the public accommodations subchapter of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). It grew out of an incident that occurred in a grocery store in South Paris, Maine...

A public building authority issued bonds in 1986 and 1988 to finance public improvements at a planned development, with a bank serving as indenture trustee for the bond issues. The bonds were secured by landowner assessment liens, and the bond covenants...