Plaintiffs filed four patent claims in the United States, stemming from an invention by a British researcher. A few years previously, the researcher's colleague had informally divulged the invention's process to a defendant when both attended...

Plaintiff grantor was an unlettered, ignorant woman who was 22 years of age. She owned 80 acres of land. The defendant grantee was a real estate dealer with a lot of experience in land transactions. The grantee approached the grantor with an offer to...

Defendant set fire to a house. The seven people inside were not harmed. He was convicted of arson and seven counts of reckless endangerment, and the trial court imposed sentences for each, some of which ran consecutively. The Court of Appeals affirmed...

Appellee operated a pit barbecue restaurant in Mason, Tennessee, which was close to Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis metropolitan statistical area encompassed parts of Mississippi and Arkansas, as well as Tennessee. Appellee filed an application for registration...

Petitioner foreign country owned and operated petitioner hospital. A corporation recruited Americans for employment at petitioner hospital. An advertisement for a position was placed and respondent answered it. During his employment, officials from petitioner...

Defendant claimed that she stabbed the victim, her boyfriend, in defense of her unborn children. The trial court disallowed a defense of others instruction, noting that the fetuses were not viable. Defendant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Defendant...

Appellant employee had an employment contract with appellee corporation, which included a confidentiality provision and an express covenant not to compete. The corporation commenced an action and moved for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the employee...

Defendant killed the victim, a romantic rival, after the victim arrived at defendant's home to see defendant's fiancée. Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder in violation of N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-2-1(A). At trial, defendant...

Plaintiff filed a petition to be named the personal representative of an estate. Plaintiff claimed that he was the decedent's son. The trial court found that the decedent died intestate, found plaintiff to be his son, and found plaintiff to be his...

Petitioner and respondent lived together in a romantic relationship beginning in 1991. In approximately 1993, the parties entered into an oral agreement in which they each agreed to purchase lottery tickets and to equally share in the proceeds of any...