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LBDS Holding Company, LLC developed technology to improve MRI imaging of the heart. In 2008, the parties entered into an agreement whereby ISOL agreed to consult with LBDS and install LBDS' proprietary software within ISOL's generic MRI systems...

On Sept. 15, 2010, Skyhook Wireless, Inc. filed an action against Google, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Through an amended complaint filed on March 29, 2013, Skyhook alleged that Google had infringed its patents when...

Starting in 1999, a number of manufacturers and sellers of polyurethane foam products allegedly began engaging in price fixing activity. In February of 2010, Vitafoam, one of the manufacturers, admitted its part in the conspiracy to federal authorities...

On Dec. 20, 2013, Chris P. Carter filed an action against defendants, Forjas Taurus, S.A., Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc., and Taurus Holdings, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Through an amended complaint...

On May 9, 2007, 30-year-old plaintiff Brandon Stollings was using a 10-inch portable table saw designed and manufactured by defendants Ryobi Technologies and One World Technologies and purchased at defendant Home Depot. The saw experienced a kickback...

Alahandro Omotola stated that he was driving north on Central Avenue in Atlanta, GA on Feb. 4, 2011 when a vehicle driven by Constantine Avradopoulos changed lanes and struck the side of Omotola's vehicle. Avradopoulos was driving in the scope of...

National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was operating a train west on a main line of Union Pacific Railroad Company in the County of Churchill, NV. At the point where the line crossed U.S. Highway 95, a tractor trailer combination owned by John...

David V. McIntosh was employed by M.K. Battery, Inc. M.K. supplied batteries to be used in military combat vehicles to the United States Army. M.K. enacted a manufacturing change to its existing batteries that allegedly resulted in the new batteries having...

On Feb. 13, 2012, plaintiff James Simmons was at the residence of his brother-in-law, defendant Larry Collins, assisting with a plumbing repair and using an angle grinder when the blade broke off and went through the protective eye gear worn by plaintiff...

On Feb. 23, 2011, Jo Huskey had a pelvic mesh product implanted by Gretchen L. Byrkit, M.D. at Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Illinois. Huskey claimed that the polypropylene mesh in her TVT-O sling eroded and caused her severe, ongoing pain because...

On Nov. 26, 2012, Benjamin Fortune was injured while using a Ryobi table saw, model BTS21. The table saw was designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold by Techtronic Industries North America Inc., One World Technologies, and Ryobi Technologies. Fortune...

On Aug. 27, 2009, United States Border Patrol agent Ryan Moore, in the course of his duties, was driving a Chevy Silverado westbound on Otay Mountain Truck Trail, an unpaved mountain road with multiple blind turns and unprotected drop-offs. Plaintiff...

On the evening of Dec. 28, 2007, an armed take-over robbery occurred at Portos Bakery in Burbank, California. Angelo Dahlia, a detective with the Burbank Police Department, was called the following morning and told to respond to the Department to conduct...

On Aug. 9, 2011, plaintiffs Jared Adkins and his 11-year-old son C.A. were paying passengers aboard a 46-foot diving boat named Big Dipper, which provided transportation to scuba diving sites. Plaintiffs were in the water swimming off the stern of the...

American Pop Corn Company, ConAgra Foods, Inc. and General Mills, Inc. (collectively the popcorn defendants) manufactured and sold microwave popcorn containing butter flavored products and other products containing diacetyl and/or pentanedione. Givaudan...

Since at least 1999, a number of flexible polyurethane foam manufacturers had engaged in an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of the product and allocate customers. In February 2010, Vitafoam, which was one of the polyurethane foam manufacturers, entered...

Beginning in March of 2007, SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc., a seller of natural gas, allegedly charged existing customers enrolled in certain rate plans more than the published rate filed by SCANA with the Georgia Public Service Commission for the plan...

George John Bussanich, Sr. was a member, Chief Executive Officer and President of Metropolitan Ambulatory Surgical Center LLC (MASC), a holding company for the managing of medical clinics owned by Bussanich, Sr. and the funding of certain businesses....

For about 40 years, Tod Curtis owned and operated the Ye Olde Town Inn (YOTI) restaurant and bar on W. Busse Avenue in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Curtis was the sole beneficial owner of the property with the power of direction of Trust No. 10510 and the...

On Feb. 1, 2009, L.S. suffered a closed head injury in a motor vehicle collision. Shortly thereafter, she began treating with Jonathan Fellus, M.D., a neurologist. For a five-month period spanning 2008 and 2009, L.S. and Dr. Fellus had a sexual relationship...

Around 2010, Shippers Transport Express, Inc. began a program in which it leased trucks to its workforce of California port truck drivers. Shippers classified the drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Grayling Taylor and Bruce Brown...

Plaintiff Columbia Riverkeeper filed a civil action on Aug. 26, 2013, seeking judicial relief compelling defendant U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.S. $ S 552, as amended, with...

On Nov. 26, 2012, Jesse Ventura a/k/a James G. Janos filed an action against Chris Kyle in the Minnesota District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County. Through the complaint, Ventura stated that he was a military veteran who had served...

Diane Albright had surgery on March 9, 2010, to correct a cystocele or bladder prolapse. She stated that a Pinnacle pelvic floor repair kit designed and manufactured by Boston Scientific Corporation (d/b/a Mansfield Scientific, Inc. and Microvasive, Inc...

On Nov. 14, 2012, 45-year-old Dawn Andalora filed an amended complaint in the Superior Court, Judicial District of Windham at Windham, Connecticut against Joseph Falanga. Andalora alleged that from 1974 to 1979, when she was a minor, Falanga engaged in...