Plaintiff and her husband were traveling by buggy at night. Defendant was driving a car, rounded a curve, and approached the buggy from the opposite direction. When defendant's car hit the buggy, plaintiff and her husband were thrown to the ground...

CLEs are typically regarded with some level of disdain by most lawyers. Who has the time or the mental space to sit through dry, law school-style lectures or online slideshows when there is real legal work to be done? Most lawyers begrudgingly (and half...

Ryus was an experienced miner in the area where the mine was located. The parties negotiated for the mining lease. Ryus showed Kendrick a shaft in the mine, laden with rich ore, and represented that ore had not been removed from it and that other shafts...

Plaintiffs, mostly British subjects and their heirs, claimed title to property conveyed to them by the Piankeshaw Indians prior to the American Revolution. Plaintiffs contended that their title ran directly from the Native Americans who owned the property...

Defendants were involved in an attempted escape from a jail. A corrections officer was assaulted as part of the escape plan. The Superior Court in the Judicial District of Fairfield (Connecticut) convicted them of assault in the first degree, assault...

On V-J Day, August 14, 1945, plaintiff stepped out from under defendant hotel's marquee and was knocked unconscious by a heavy, overstuffed armchair that fell from the sky. Plaintiff filed a negligence action against defendant, but the trial court...

Plaintiff saw a Pepsi advertisement showing that "points" could be earned by purchasing its products and exchanging them for Pepsi merchandise. At the end of the ad, a student was shown landing a Harrier Jet at school with a subtitle that indicated...

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Gociman v. Loyola Univ. of Chi. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit December 7, 2021, Argued; July 25, 2022, Decided No. 21-1304 Opinion  [*877]  Jackson-Akiwumi , Circuit Judge . Simon Pfeifer, Isabel Botello, and Kari Whalen are undergraduate...