A creditor submitted a claim allegedly secured by personal property which the debtor purchased with a credit card under a security agreement which provided that the creditor had a security interest in all goods purchased with the card. The debtor contended...

Hernandez v. Ves McDonald's Superior Court of California, County of Alameda June 22, 2020, Decided No. RG20064825 Opinion Application Re: Temporary Restraining Order Granted in Part Upon review of Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Application for Temporary...

Defendant Bunner, a part-time user of Linux coding/computer operating system, thought DeCSS, a computer program allegedly containing trade secrets of plaintiff DVD Copy Control Ass'n, Inc. (Association), would be useful to other Linux users. DeCSS...

Seller Swift Canadian Company, a Canadian corporation, entered into an agreement with Defendants, Albert Banet, Sali Banet and Abraham L. Perliman, buyers who do business as Keystone Wool Pullers in Philadelphia. By this contract Keystone agreed to purchase...

In July 1994, officials at the Department of Justice ("DOJ"), on behalf of the United States, filed suit against Microsoft Corp., charging the company with, among other things, unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in the operating system market...

Respondents filed suit challenging the durational residency requirements of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, contending that the residency requirements imposed an unconstitutional burden on a certain class of...

The origin of this dispute derives from a letter dated April 6, 1872, in which President Ulysses S. Grant authorized his St. Louis agent, Charles W. Ford, to grant Pacific Railroad Company (Pacific) a right-of-way over his land outside of St. Louis, Missouri...

Pilots brought writs of error and sought to be exempted from the payment of half-pilotage fees, which they were required to pay pursuant to a state law that required certain ships to either receive a pilot or pay a fee. They contended that the state law...

Appellant challenged his convictions for kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon alleging that the trial court erred by refusing to submit the issue of insanity to the jury. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Plaintiff patentee appealed from an order that found the key claim of its patent for weight plates used with fitness equipment such as barbells to be invalid as obvious in light of the prior art, and granting summary judgment in favor of defendant competitor...