Plaintiff landowners brought an action for trespass against defendant landowners, who filed a counterclaim to quiet title and for damages. The circuit court quieted title to the disputed land, which consisted mainly of undeveloped wooded area and swampland...

Defendant was indicted after trading a controlled substance for a pistol. He pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking offense but asserted that an additional mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed under 18 U.S.C.S. § 924(c)(1)(A) for using...

Helmerich & Payne leased two tracts of land in Oklahoma from Rock Island for coal mining purposes. The lease contained a reclamation clause, to restore the surface as nearly as possible to its condition prior to said mining operation. Helmerich &...

Plaintiffs, the owners of real property, brought an action against defendant prospective buyers after the parties' sales agreement was not consummated. The sales contract contained a liquidated damages clause that stated that plaintiffs had the option...

This suit was originally brought by Broomfield as receiver of Dr. McCarthy's Rest Home, Inc. (the Home) seeking to establish a trust on certain funds alleged withheld or diverted by the defendant Leon Gordon in excess of the cost of construction work...

Plaintiff Shoshana Hebshi is a natural person, a United States citizen, a resident of Ohio, and the daughter of a Jewish mother and a father who emigrated from Saudi Arabia. On September 11, 2011, Plaintiff Shoshana Hebshi flew on Frontier Airlines flight...

After a night of heavy drinking, Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University student, left the apartment of a classmate and disappeared. Four years later, she remains missing. Lauren's parents brought suit against three students who were with...

According to Plaintiff Karen Balas, her employer defendant Huntington Ingalls subjected her to an ongoing sexually hostile work environment that included unwanted requests from her supervisor for sex, numerous sexual comments, sexually explicit posters...

Plaintiff Tillie Moss, a passenger on defendant Rolla Wells' streetcar, was injured at Eighteenth and Carr streets in the city of St. Louis, alleged that she was injured when she was thrown from Wells’ streetcar while she was endeavoring to...

Plaintiff Clayton Rash was hired by defendant J.V. International and related companies (JVIC) under an employment contract. In the first trial, the jury returned a verdict for Rash of $444,933 on his breach of contract claim, and a verdict for JVIC of...