• Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of Am., Inc.

    Defendant, a video game system creator, designed a computer program that prevented its game system from accepting unauthorized game cartridges. Plaintiff, a licensee of defendant, applied to the copyright office for a reproduction of defendant's program...
  • Estate of Parsons

    In a probate proceeding, the trial court rejected a claim of interest in the estate of numerous relatives. The record indicated that at the time of execution of the will, three persons signed it as attesting witnesses. One of the witnesses was a notary...
  • Hermitage Methodist Homes, Inc. v. Dominion Tr. Co.

    Appellee trustee brought an action to determine whether a racial provision in the trust it administered was enforceable, who the trust's proper income beneficiary was, and what the rights were of the private schools who were the income beneficiaries...
  • United States v. Whitaker

    Acting on information that drugs were being sold from a certain apartment in Madison, Wisconsin, law enforcement obtained the permission of the apartment property manager and brought a narcotics-detecting dog to the locked, shared hallway of the apartment...
  • Mease v. Fox

    Plaintiff landlord brought the present action to recover three months' rent from defendant tenants, who had vacated the leased home. Defendants' answer denied their default on the rental contract. By later amendments, defendants affirmatively...
  • Brooks Cotton Co. v. Williams

    Appellant farmer allegedly entered into an oral contract to sell his cotton crop to Appellee cotton company. The farmer failed to deliver the cotton and the cotton company sued for specific performance. The farmer defended the suit by arguing that the...
  • Neumiller Farms, Inc. v. Cornett

    Defendant buyer contracted with the seller for 12 loads of potatoes at a price of $ 4.25 per hundredweight. The buyer accepted three loads. When the market price of potatoes dropped to $ 2 per hundredweight, the buyer refused to accept delivery of the...
  • TUPE Query

    If TUPE is applicable does an employee need to have a qualifying period of 2 years in order to gain automatic unfair dismissal?
  • Johnson v. Superior Court

    Parents and their child brought an action for professional negligence, fraud, and breach of contract against a sperm bank, its employees, officers, and directors, alleging the transmission of a serious kidney disease to the child from the sperm donor...
  • Allen v. Biltmore Tissue Corp.

    Decedent purchased stock in appellant corporation that gave appellant an option to repurchase the stock upon decedent's death. However, the stock certificate itself did not specify that restriction. Upon decedent's death, appellant exercised its...