Pac. Shores Hosp. v. United Behavioral Health United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 7, 2014, Argued and Submitted, Pasadena, California; August 20, 2014, Filed No. 12-55210 Opinion  [*1032]  W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge: An employee...

Markman v. Westview Instruments Supreme Court of the United States January 8, 1996, Argued ; April 23, 1996, Decided No. 95-26. Opinion  [***581]   [*372]   [**1387]  JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. The question here is whether the...

Carden v. Arkoma Assocs. Supreme Court of the United States November 7, 1989, Argued ; February 27, 1990, Decided No. 88-1476 Opinion  [*186]   [***162]   [**1016]  JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case...

Advanced Fluid Sys. v. Huber United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit January 15, 2020, Argued; April 30, 2020, Filed Nos. 19-1722 and 19-1752 Opinion OPINION OF THE COURT JORDAN, Circuit Judge . This sorry story of disloyalty and deception...

While Plaintiff Vipin Trivedi, a person of East Asian Indian origin, worked as a research scientist for a state office, he claimed that his supervisor, defendant Thomas Cooper, subjected him to disparaging racial remarks, failed to promote him, and caused...

Prior to October of 1971, the Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Corporation (PICCO) owned a tract of land abutting the Delaware River in Chester, Pennsylvania where it operated a hydrocarbon resin manufacturing plant. Thereafter, PICCO ceased operations...

An indigent defendant, represented at trial by court-appointed counsel, was convicted of forgery charges in two separate criminal prosecutions in North Carolina state courts. Pursuant to North Carolina statutes, the defendant took separate appeals as...

In the wake of allegations that student James Haidak assaulted a fellow student, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst first suspended him for five months and then subsequently expelled him. Seeking compensatory damages, declaratory relief, and an...

Appellant wife was hurt when the appellee professor touched her from behind without warning. The plaintiff wife and husband sued appellee, university and professor for damages for personal injury the wife claimed to have suffered as a result thereof....

The defendant in the instant case was indicted on charges of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Upon the completion of the People's case, and again upon completion of the entire case, the defense moved for a trial order of dismissal...