• Dove v. Rose Acre Farms, Inc.

    An employee attempted to earn a bonus from his employer pursuant to a bonus agreement between the parties. The bonus agreement stipulated that tardiness or absence from work would forfeit the bonus. The employee missed two days of work. Consequently,...
  • United States v. Sharpe

    A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, while patrolling a highway in an area under surveillance for suspected drug trafficking, noticed an apparently overloaded pickup truck with an attached camper traveling in tandem with a Pontiac. Respondent...
  • People v. Brown

    Jason Neal, a bricklayer, entered defendant’s front porch and advanced toward defendant with a hammer after the two had argued about a contract under which Neal was to perform landscaping work at defendant’s house. Defendant, standing in the...
  • Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc.

    Arizona voters adopted Proposition 200 in 2004, and that initiative was embodied in Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 16-166(F) and required county recorders to reject any application for registration to vote that was not accompanied by satisfactory evidence...
  • Herod v. Grant

    A passenger, while seated in the back of the driver's moving truck, attempted to hunt deer. The passenger fell from the truck, which was driving over freshly-plowed fields at the time, and he sustained serious injuries. In the subsequent personal...
  • Waube v. Warrington

    Susie Waube witnessed her child being struck and killed by the driver of a vehicle (defendant). Waube died shortly thereafter because of emotional upset. William Waube, as special administrator of the estate of Susie Waube, brought an action against the...
  • Burns v. McCormick

    James Halsey, an elderly man and a widower, told the plaintiffs that if they gave up their home and business in New York, and boarded and cared for him during his life, the house and lot with its furniture and equipment would be theirs upon his death...
  • Int'l Bus. Machs. Corp. v. Levin

    Petitioner moved for an order disqualifying cross-appellant, counsel for respondents, from further participation in a private antitrust suit on the ground that cross-appellant had represented both respondents and petitioner during the pendency of the...
  • Clark v. Dodge

    Plaintiff and individual defendant owned all of the stock of the defendant corporations. A written agreement existed between them under which both parties agreed to exercise voting rights in an effort to maintain benefits from the corporation's success...
  • Pennsylvania v. Muniz

    Respondent Inocencio Muniz was arrested for driving while under the influence on a Pennsylvania highway. Without being advised of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 , he was taken to a booking center where, as was the routine practice,...