Testatrix Ellen Donovan left a will which contained a clause permitting the executor, the Rev. Eleazer M.P. Wells, to distribute the residue of her estate according to the Wells’ discretion pursuant to the testatrix’s intentions, i.e., for...

Appellant Bergey tried to purchase a home from appellee HSBC Bank USA. The home was eventually sold to someone else. Bergey filed a complaint for damages, an injunction, and specific performance against appellees HSBC, its real estate broker, and its...

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A jury in California state court found defendant Robinson guilty under Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11721 for being addicted to the use of narcotics, a conviction that was affirmed on appeal. Trial included a police officer's testimony that...

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In December 1973 the plaintiff, Robert Steinberg, applied for admission to the defendant, the Chicago Medical School, as a first-year student for the academic year 1974-75 and paid an application fee of $ 15. The Chicago Medical School is a private, not...

The taxpayers attempted to deduct $ 5,965 in traveling expenses and legal fees from their federal income taxes for 1946. The taxpayers had incurred the expenses and fees while searching for and investigating newspaper and radio properties to purchase...

Both appellees were native-born citizens of the United States. Mendoza-Martinez was ordered deported as an alien and Cort was denied a passport to enable him to return to the United States, both on the ground that they had lost their citizenship by remaining...

American Iron & Steel Inst. v. EPA United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit November 22, 1996, Argued ; June 6, 1997, Decided No. 95-1348, Consolidated with Nos. 95-1360, 95-1362, 95-1363, 95-1378, 95-1452, 95-1483 Opinion...