Arch Trading Company, Inc. (“Arch Trading”) was indicted after government agents discovered that Arch Trading's executives violated two emergency executive orders prohibiting doing business with Iraq by their attempt to enter Iraq to install...

In passing through Customs at Los Angeles International Airport, respondent checked the "no" box of the usual form with respect to the question whether he or any family member was carrying over $5,000. However, after being questioned by customs...

Plaintiffs, Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Gruss Petroleum Corp. and Gruss Partners (BS/G) were shareholders of Anderson, Clayton & Co., a Delaware corporation (Anderson), who, through a newly formed corporation -- AC Acquisitions Corp. (AC), made...

In 1987, Detectives Ferguson and Haugse of the Boulder Sheriff's Department and Officer Stiles of the Longmont Police Department, both in civilian clothing, visited Defendant Kevin Franklin Elmarr at his home to inform him that his ex-wife, Carol...

Respondent Michael Williams, using a sexually explicit screen name, signed into a public Internet chat room. A Secret Service agent had also signed in to the chat room under the moniker “Lisa n Miami.” The agent struck up a conversation with...

Petitioner Rush Prudential HMO, Inc.(Rush), a health maintenance organization (HMO) that contracts to provide medical services for employee welfare benefits plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), denied respondent...

The issue in both complaints was the concept of predominance in class action litigation under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3) . Plaintiff consumers challenged an order from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that denied class certification...

In light of the current climate I wonder whether someone could assist me and advise whether we can witness a will remotely? or a deed? I would like to continue to help the community but want to also stay safe. Thank you

Could you use a bit of levity right about now? Yeah, thought so. We complied a short list of our favorite, fictional comedic lawyers. Check out the list, and click on each name to watch some clips and get a few chuckles. (Oh, and if you notice we...

Where an employer has overpaid an employee on the final pay and now seeks to recover the overpayment from (the now ex-)employee. Should the overpayment be recovered as a gross or net sum?