Vehicles driven by petitioner Fredericks and respondent Stockert collided on a portion of a North Dakota state highway that runs through the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The 6.59-mile stretch of highway within the reservation is open to the public...

Assumpsit on a written promise to pay the plaintiff $5198.87, with the following condition annexed, viz., "on the condition that if a greater quantity of sperm oil should arrive in whaling vessels at Nantucket and New Bedford, on or between the first...

At a bar in Palomas, Mexico, Alfredo Hernandez-Hernandez, a Mexican citizen twice deported from the United States, consumed a sufficient amount of alcohol and marijuana to blackout. The next thing he knew, Hernandez was in the United States without any...

Plaintiff patients claimed economic and noneconomic damages for financial injury and emotional distress that they allegedly suffered when, through defendant's alleged negligence, computer disks and tapes containing personal information from an estimated...

Manuel Alcorn, a Negro truck driver and shop steward for the Teamster's Union, was fired when he advised his employer's foreman of his advice to a non-teamster employee not to drive a truck to a job site. Alcorn was reinstated through grievance...

Kadlec Medical Center and its insurer, Western Professional Insurance Company, filed this diversity action in Louisiana district court against Louisiana Anesthesia Associates (LAA), its shareholders, and Lakeview Regional Medical Center (Lakeview Medical...

Collins Foods International extended a job offer to Armando Rodriguez, by telephone. When Rodriguez reported for work, Collins Foods accepted as documentation of authorization to work a driver's license and a forged document appearing to be a Social...

The plaintiffs, two students at Neuqua Valley High School, a large public high school in Naperville, Illinois, had sued the school district (and school officials, whom we can ignore—we'll call the defendants, collectively, "the school"...

Baseball umpire Edwin Hickox was injured while wearing a mask manufactured by Wilson Sporting Goods Company. Mr. Hickox and his wife brought products-liability claims against Wilson. A jury found for the Hickoxes on all claims. Wilson appealed, arguing...

Laura DeMambro injured her ankle when she slipped into a pothole while attempting to enter her vehicle, which was lawfully parked near the curb on a city street, but which was not in a marked or striped parking area. The trial court granted summary judgment...