While representing holders of a junior encumbrance on realty involved in litigation, petitioner attorneys, pursuant to agreements with the clients, purchased the senior encumbrance and note for the apparent purpose of affording the clients more time to...

Plaintiff filed suit against defendant to collect monies due under an equipment rental agreement. Defendant alleged that the rentals were made to a de facto corporation and accordingly he could not be held personally liable and that plaintiff was estopped...

BREAKOUT is a relatively early video game of comparative simplicity. The sound accompaniment is four basic tones. The screen shows the two players' scores at the top. The players move a "paddle" to hit a "ball" against a "wall...

The city, in September, 1904, and for many years prior thereto, owned and maintained a system of waterworks together with a source of water supply which came from the mountains lying to the north and east of the city. The mother brought a wrongful death...

Residents of Puerto Rico receiving assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) brought an action against the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico...

Appellant Ivan Bennett Willis was charged with aggravated sexual abuse committed in Indian country. In a pretrial motion, the government gave notice of its intent to offer evidence pursuant to Rule 413 of the Federal Rules of Evidence of two prior sexual...

While detained at the Faulkner County Detention Center in Arkansas, Chariell Glaze was attacked by three fellow detainees. Glaze brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Demontrel Childs, a former correctional officer at the Center...

Defendants Kostrick, Romano, Perrino and twenty-five others were charged in a one hundred and thirteen count indictment with various offenses involving a large-scale conspiracy to distribute cocaine. All those indicted, with the exception of Kostrick...

United States v. Lanier Supreme Court of the United States January 7, 1997, Argued ; March 31, 1997, Decided No. 95-1717 Opinion  [***439]   [*261]   [**1222]  JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent David Lanier was convicted under...

United States v. Clarke Supreme Court of the United States April 23, 2014, Argued; June 19, 2014, Decided No. 13-301 Opinion JUSTICE Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court.  [*249]   [***333]  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) has broad...