Frances Ann McLaughlin, an infant six years of age, was visiting her uncle and aunt in West Deering, New Hampshire, during the Summer of 1952. While bathing in Whittemore Lake, she almost drowned and was carried from the lake in an unconscious condition...

Plaintiff Karen B. Ghassemieh, age 29 on Feb. 24, 1977, was a teacher of art with the Baltimore County Schools. On that date, she was teaching an 8th grade class of "above average" students, including defendant E.S., who was then 13 years old...

Plaintiff Blue Cross mistakenly mailed 66 checks to William Sauer at Chesterfield, Missouri. The checks were intended to cover medical services for William J. Sauer's child in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Each check was mailed in a separate envelope that...

Headley sued Hackley & McGordon to recover compensation for cutting, hauling and delivering in the Muskegon river a quantity of logs. The performance of the labor was not disputed, but the parties were not agreed as to the construction of the contract...

Defendant John Brown, who was 17 years old at the time, was charged with larceny after taking a child's bicycle in retaliation for the child's behavior toward him. The information alleged that there was intent to commit grand larceny. Brown claimed...

If you so much as walked past a television this spring, you saw something about the college admissions cheating scandal. Much of the attention focused on the celebrities embroiled in the case, particularly Full House’s Lori Loughlin and Desperate...

The U.S. Supreme Court steadily and without fanfare has been revolutionizing multiple areas of civil procedure to provide litigants with a battleplan to win their cases. The stealth procedural weapons include personal jurisdiction, venue forum selection...

Few things are as deeply rooted in the traditional operations and marketing of law firms as free initial consultations. Conventional wisdom in the legal industry says they are the best way to attract prospective clients and convert them into actual clients...

Plaintiff Peterson M. Yokum was the owner of and resided at the premises located at 723 Toulouse Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, with his wife, plaintiff Polly Elizabeth Anderson. The property was zoned as "Vieux Carre Commercial...

Whaley, a mixed-martial-arts trainer who held classes at his residence, was indicted for offenses committed against 4 boys below 16 years old in 2015 and 2016. All the incidents happened in different occasions in his home. Whaley requested to sever the...