Harry Hanson had been working for Central Show Printing Company, Inc. (Central Show) for many years when he was offered a position with Stoyles Printing Company (Stoyles). After some negotiations, Central Show promised to hire Hanson full-time until he...

After years of antagonisms and litigation between Patricia Ann Cochran and Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., who had lived together but never married, Patricia (with her daughter) filed yet another action against Johnnie seeking to recover against Johnnie for...

The farmer orally agreed to sell bushels of hard red spring wheat to a brokerage firm in the farm commodity market. Both parties, from prior dealings in the market, realized that although an express price per bushel was agreed upon, the price actually...

Indianapolis Power & Light Co. (IPL), a regulated Indiana utility and an accrual-basis taxpayer, required customers having suspect credit to make deposits with it to assure prompt payment of future electric bills. Prior to termination of service,...

Plaintiff Verlinden B.V., a Dutch corporation with its principal offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, commenced an action for anticipatory breach of an irrevocable documentary letter of credit established in its favor by defendant Central Bank of Nigeria...

A patient, Elisabeth Gates, filed a suit for malpractice against her ophthalmologist and the Eye Clinic of Seattle. In May 1972, she complained of difficulty in focusing, blurring, and gaps in her vision. Mrs. Gates was 54 years old at the time and had...

Federal law made the possession of a firearm by a felon a crime punishable by a prison term of up to 10 years. However, the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 increased that sentence to a mandatory 15 years to life if the offender had three or more prior...

Providers of “habilitation services” under Idaho's Medicaid plan were reimbursed by the State's Department of Health and Welfare. Section 30(A) of the Medicaid Act required Idaho's plan to “assure that payments are consistent...

Believing that damages suits filed by prisoners against state correction officers were largely frivolous and vexatious, New York passed Correction Law § 24, which divested state courts of general jurisdiction of their jurisdiction over such suits...

Scheuer, the personal representatives of the estates of students who were killed on the campus of a state-controlled university, brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983 for damages against Governor Rhodes, the Adjutant General of the Ohio...