Whitfield v. United States Supreme Court of the United States November 30, 2004, Argued ; January 11, 2005 1 , Decided (No. 03-1293), (No. 03-1294) Opinion  [*211]   [**689]  Justice O'Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.  [****5]  These cases...

Metro. Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Colmey United States District Court for the Southern District of New York November 20, 2019, Decided; November 20, 2019, Filed 18 CV 9259 (VB) Opinion OPINION AND ORDER Briccetti, J .: Plaintiff Metropolitan Property...

Parties negotiated a contract to sell an article which fluctuates in price using a telegraph mode of communication. An offer was made to which the receiving party accepted the offer via telegraph. Acceptance was deposited in the telegraph office. Nevertheless...

Petitioners, Karen Sutton and Kimberly Hinton, severely myopic twin sisters, have uncorrected visual acuity of 20/200 or worse, but with corrective measures, both function identically to individuals without similar impairments. They applied to respondent...

In 1994, Congress passed a statute criminalizing the unauthorized recording, the transmission to the public, and the sale or distribution of or traffic in unauthorized recordings of live musical performances and was loosely known as the anti-bootlegging...

Plaintiff guest was injured when he dove off the defendant owner's boat into shallow water. The guest filed a personal injury action against the owner, claiming that the owner negligently failed to warn him about the shallow water. The owner filed...

Defendant killed his wife in the course of a contentious evening after she told him of an affair, spurned his attempts to reconcile, and goaded him by saying, "I know you want to kill me. Pull that knife and make it easy for me." The trial court...

A tractor-trailer jackknifed on the interstate in an attempt to avoid colliding with a vehicle during a rainstorm. As traffic began to backup, a power line fell and landed on two stopped vehicles. State troopers arrived on the scene to direct traffic...

Defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit arson in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 844(i), arson with personal injuries in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. §§ 844(i) and 2, and perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 1623. At trial, the court...

Defendants, eleven males, ranging in age from twenty-one to forty-nine, ten African American and one Hispanic, were indicted of twenty-three counts connected by a conspiracy to sell, and the selling of, crack cocaine and heroin in the hallways of, and...