Defendant Edwin Figueroa was convicted by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York for unlawful possession of a firearm. At trial, the district court ruled that Figueroa’s counsel could not cross-examine a government...

Keeton v. Wells Fargo Corp. District of Columbia Court of Appeals November 5, 2009, Argued; January 21, 2010, Decided No. 08-CV-990 Opinion  [*1119]  KRAMER, Associate Judge : This dispute concerns the alleged unconscionability of an arbitration clause...

Appellant defendant father challenged a decision of the First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Caddo (Louisiana), which awarded sole custody of his two sons to appellee plaintiff mother, subject to limited visitation. After the birth of the parties'...

Petitioners Jason Daubert and Eric Schuller and their parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court against respondent pharmaceutical company, alleging that the children's serious birth defects had been caused by the mothers' prenatal ingestion...

At the time she executed her will and an inter vivos trust, the decedent and her ex-husband were still married. The will provided for two trusts. Trust A was a marital reduction trust in favor of her spouse. Trust B was a pour-over trust, which granted...

Roccaforte v. Jefferson County Supreme Court of Texas October 14, 2010, Argued; April 29, 2011, Opinion Delivered NO. 09-0326 Opinion  [*920]  Justice Willett delivered a concurring opinion. ] The Local Government Code requires a person suing a county...

A single-investor fund (SIF) is an entity created at the request of, and designed specifically for, an investor or group of affiliated investors (and sometimes called a “fund of one”). SIFs have become increasingly common in the alternative...

Guaranteed Rate, Inc. v. Ace Am. Ins. Co. Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle July 14, 2021, Submitted; August 18, 2021, Decided C.A. No. N20C-04-268 MMJ CCLD Opinion JOHNSTON, J. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL CONTEXT In this insurance coverage case, Plaintiff...

Teodori v. Werner Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 11, 1980, Argued ; May 30, 1980, Decided No Number in Original Opinion  [*60]   [**31]  OPINION OF THE COURT Tenant William Werner (appellant) seeks to open both a confessed money judgment and a confessed...

Roverano v. John Crane, Inc. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 6, 2019, Argued; February 19, 2020, Decided No. 26 EAP 2018, No. 27 EAP 2018 Opinion  [*527]  JUSTICE MUNDY In this appeal by allowance, we consider whether the Fair Share Act, 42 Pa.C.S...