• Jones v. City of Boston

    From 1999 to 2006, the Boston Police Department administered a hair drug test to thousands of officers, cadets, and job applicants. The testing procedure called for the gathering of a hair sample, which was then "washed" and analyzed for the...

  • Aptix Corp. v. Quickturn Design Sys.

    Aptix is a developer of hardware-logic-emulation technology and the owner of U.S. Patent No. 5,544,069 ("the '069 patent"). Amr Mohsen ("Mohsen") founded Aptix and at all relevant times was the majority shareholder, chief executive...

  • Pa. Coal Co. v. Mahon

    On August 26, 1921, plaintiff homeowner Mahon was bound by a valid covenant to permit defendant Pennsylvania Coal Company, which had sold to the homeowners or to their ancestor the surface rights only in their lot, to exercise without objection or hindrance...

  • James H. Rice Co. v. McJohn

    James H. Rice Company filed a bill in aid of execution against Joseph McJohn and others. After a default judgment against them, McJohn appealed from a decision of the Appellate Court for the First District (Illinois), which affirmed a decision finding...

  • Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan Catv Corp.

    The State of New York enacted legislation to facilitate tenant access to cable television (“CATV”). The law provided that a landlord may not "interfere with the installation of cable television facilities upon his property or premises...

  • Eagle Enters., Inc. v. Gross

    Bob Gross purchased land from the Baums under a deed containing a covenant where the owner of the land would purchase water from Eagle Enterprises, Inc. Gross constructed a well but refused to buy water from Eagle Enterprises, Inc.'s. Eagle Enterprises...

  • Bell v. Bell (In re Bell)

    On June 13, 1996, Wayne E. Bell, Jr. (the debtor) filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The debtor elected to take his state law exemptions. Among the assets that he claimed as exempt on his Schedule C filing were shares in Rockwell's...

  • Miller v. Schoene

    Acting under the Cedar Rust Act of Virginia, state entomologist Schoene, ordered certain tree owners to cut down a large number of ornamental red cedar trees growing on their property as a means of preventing the communication of a rust or plant disease...

  • Bethany v. Jones

    Bethany and Jones were same-sex partners from 2000 until 2008. In 2004, the parties began to take steps toward having a family. A male friend of Jones agreed to donate sperm. Bethany agreed to carry the child because Jones was experiencing some health...

  • Carabetta v. Carabetta

    Plaintiff, Evelyn B. Carabetta, and the defendant, Joseph F. Carabetta were duly married in a church, but they did not obtain a marriage license. Thereafter, the couple lived together and raised four children together, all of whose birth certificates...