• Egan's Case

    The employee, a cab driver, suffered a minute hemorrhage after being stopped in the street and asked for help by a police officer holding three men at bay with a gun. The officer was outnumbered, and the situation was tense. The employee had trouble in...
  • Paine v. Sexton

    The plaintiffs seek to register approximately thirty-six acres of predominantly woodland located in Wellfleet. In their petition for registration, they asserted claims based on record title and adverse possession. For their claims of adverse possession...
  • Valley Health Sys. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

    Valley Health Sys. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co. Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Bergen County August 27, 2021, Argued; October 18, 2021, Decided DOCKET NO. BER-L-1907-21 Opinion FACTUAL BACKGROUND THIS MATER arises out of a dispute between plaintiffs...
  • Weyerhaeuser Co. v. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv.

    The Fish and Wildlife Service administers the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior. In 2001, the Service listed the dusky gopher frog as an endangered species which required the Service to designate “critical...
  • Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp.

    Petitioner Sandifer and others filed a putative collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, seeking backpay for time spent donning and doffing pieces of protective gear that they assert respondent United States Steel Corporation required...
  • Hall v. SeaWorld Entm't, Inc.

    Hall v. SeaWorld Entm't, Inc. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit March 12, 2018, Argued and Submitted; May 14, 2018, Submission Withdrawn; August 28, 2018, Resubmitted, San Francisco, California; August 28, 2018, Filed No. 16-55845...
  • BPR for Sole Traders

    Mr X is a dentist, and runs his practice as a sole trader - he owns a building (in his personal capacity) which is used exclusively for the purposes of his sole-trader business. I'd be grateful for comment as to whether colleagues agree with my understanding...
  • Product Liability: A Growing Practice Area Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

    A Case Filing Surprise It’s no secret that the Coronavirus and related quarantine measures are having a big impact on lawyers and law firms. Yet while activity in many practice areas is slowing, one in particular is bucking the trend: product...
  • dissolving a trust

    How can a trust be dissolved where there is no dissolution clause? Does the trust automatically terminate once the assets/capital has been expended? thanks in advance
  • People v. Elmarr

    In 1987, Detectives Ferguson and Haugse of the Boulder Sheriff's Department and Officer Stiles of the Longmont Police Department, both in civilian clothing, visited Defendant Kevin Franklin Elmarr at his home to inform him that his ex-wife, Carol...