Plaintiff conductor brought an action against defendant railway and defendant tortfeasor under the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C.S. § 51 et seq., and state law negligence for injuries he sustained when defendant railway's...

In March 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced in a memo that he had decided to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire at the request of the Department of Justice (DOJ), which sought census block level citizenship...

A computer purchased over the telephone by V.J. Lively malfunctioned, and for the second time, Lively sent the computer back to IJAM, Inc., and Monarch Computer Systems, Inc. (collectively, “the corporations”), for repair and claimed that...

Plaintiff-appellee International Kennel Club of Chicago, Inc. was a corporation that was sponsoring dog shows in Chicago. Defendants-appellants, Mighty Star, Inc. and DCN Industries Inc., were corporations selling stuffed toys in the United States, Canada...

A number of persons, including the Governor of Puerto Rico and residents of the island, filed an action against the United States Navy in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico to enjoin the Navy's use of an island off the...

Plaintiff landowners and defendant, a neighbor who owned property adjacent to plaintiffs', disputed ownership of a 15-inch wide strip of land previously owned by plaintiffs, but which defendant had maintained for over 20 years by building stairs that...

Defendant Dolan Chapple was convicted in Arizona state court on three counts of first degree murder, one count of unlawfully transporting marijuana and one count of conspiring to unlawfully transport marijuana. He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment...

Plaintiff Brian Yost, as an 18-year-old freshman at defendant Wabash College ("Wabash") and a pledge at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, suffered injuries in an incident at the fraternity house in Sept. 2007. Contending that his injuries resulted...

The lessees drilled a well on adjoining land in close proximity to a well on the lessors' property. The lessors filed suit, alleging that the lessees were allowing gas to drain to the adjoining land. The lessees drilled more wells on the lessors'...

Goff-Hamel worked for Hastings Family Planning for 11 years. Prior to leaving Hastings, Goff-Hamel was earning $24,000 plus the following benefits: six weeks' paid maternity leave, six weeks' vacation, 12 paid holidays, 12 sick days, an educational...