Petitioner David Patchak filed suit challenging the authority of respondent Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, to invoke the Indian Reorganization Act and take into trust a property (Bradley Property) on which respondent Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish...

Two private primary schools, Society of Sisters and Hill Military Academy filed actions against the Governor of Oregon and other state officials (“appellants”) challenging the constitutionality of the Compulsory Education Act (Act) under U...

The title holder filed suit to eject the adverse possessors from the disputed parcel. The adverse possessors counterclaimed that through their use of the parcel they had acquired title by adverse possession. A jury trial ensued and at the close of the...

Plaintiff, trainee parachutist, brought a tort claim against defendant, parachute training school owner and operator, for injuries sustained in a parachute jump. Defendant raised a release of liability signed by plaintiff as an affirmative defense. The...

Tobacco companies sued state officials in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, claiming that the Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act violated the Takings Clause, the Commerce Clause, and the Due Process...

Defendant health care provider examined plaintiff's husband prior to his employment, pursuant to a contract between his employer and a health care company that subcontracted examination responsibilities to defendant health care provider. The contract...

A comparative negligence case was filed arising out of an accident in which Davenport, was injured while descending a stairway near his apartment. The owners of the apartment building brought a third-party claim against the company contracted to do landscaping...

Plaintiff female chambermaid filed an action for back wages under the Washington Minimum Wages for Women Act. The trial court ruled in favor of the employer while the Supreme Court of the State, reversing the trial court, sustained the statute and directed...

While walking in a busy aisle in a store owned and operated by appellant store, appellee customer stepped on a foreign substance. She slipped and fell, sustaining painful injuries. Appellee brought a negligence claim against appellant. A jury awarded...

Respondent former students of a state military educational institute sued petitioner superintendent of the institute, alleging that the institute's prayer at supper was an unconstitutional establishment of religion. The superintendent petitioned for...