Plaintiff Klenna Ann Fletcher left Florida for New York on Sept. 15, 1972, to visit a friend. She left her three young daughters, including 17-year-old Cindy, in Florida. On that afternoon, while Cindy was alone in the house, a fire of undetermined origin...

Petitioner filed a complaint in admiralty against respondents for the loss of its ship and cargo based upon the theories of breach of warranty, strict products liability, and negligence. Petitioner's ship was engaged in delivering oil into a pipeline...

Bethany Jill Gross, a twenty-three year old graduate student attending Nova Southeastern University, was criminally assaulted while leaving an off-campus internship site. Gross filed a negligence action against Nova based on Nova's alleged negligence...

At 2 PM, on a Wednesday afternoon on Melilla Street in Loiza, Puerto Rico, near a house known to be a drug point, Officer Mulero, one of the arresting officers, arrested Luis Daniel Ayala-Pizarro. According to Officer Mulero, he and the other arresting...

The lessee entered into a written lease with the lessor to rent the second floor of a storehouse to be used as a millinery shop. However, the lessee eventually moved out because of the lack of heat and lighting. The lessor sued to recover the rent to...

The appellant’s criminal history category was originally put at Category III but was later reduced to Category I. After considering all of the appropriate sentencing factors, the District Court imposed a sentence of 157-months imprisonment.

Texas jury sentenced petitioner to death for murder; petitioner filed prison grievance requesting to allow his long-time pastor to be present in the execution chamber, be permitted to “lay hands” on him and “pray over” him during...

Stricter Rules Could be Coming for Banks with Over $100B in Assets The heads of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve said last week that bank regulators are considering applying a set of tougher capital rules to banks that...

By: Glenn Gordon , THE PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ATTORNEY TEAM This article discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal profession, including how AI can assist attorneys in accomplishing various legal tasks, as well as concerns about such...

Chamberlan v. Ford Motor Co. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit March 23, 2005, 1 Submitted, San Francisco, California; March 31, 2005, Filed No. 04-80074 Opinion  [*955]  PER CURIAM: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) permits a discretionary...