United States Fifth Circuit - February 2008 Opinion Summaries

Langhoff Props., LLC v. BP Prods. N. Am. Inc.

Contracts, Landlord Tenant Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action arising well after the expiration of a property lease to operate a fuel and automotive service station, seeking to recover damages for...

Audler v. CBC Innovis Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a class action brought against various defendants based on their allegedly erroneous determinations that property owned by plaintiff and the other...

Brown v. Miller

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
In a civil rights case against a Louisiana city and various others brought by plaintiff who was incarcerated for twenty years before DNA testing...

Carrizales v. State Farm Lloyds

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute over coverage under plaintiffs' homeowners insurance policy with defendant for mold contamination resulting from a plumbing leak, summary...

Am. Rice, Inc. v. Producers Rice Mill, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade, Remedies, Trademark
In a Lanham Act and breach of contract action involving a design used on rice sold in Saudi Arabia, judgment for plaintiff and an award of damages are...

Davis v. McKinney

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by plaintiff under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for retaliatory discharge in violation of the First Amendment, denial of defendant's...

US v. Ekong

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In proceedings involving a defendant convicted of health care fraud and ordered to pay restitution, an order overruling defendant's objections to the...

Cain v. Transocean Offshore USA, Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law
The Supreme Court's decision in Stewart v. Dutra Constr. Co., 543 U.S. 481 (2005), has not effectively overruled circuit precedent holding that a...

Wartsila Finland OY v. Duke Capital LLC

Commercial Law, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, International Law
In a suit involving payments under a contract to construct a power plant in Guatemala, a judgment confirming an arbitration award and denying...

E I Dupont de Nemours & Co. v. Sawyer

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, M&A
In an appeal arising out of a dispute between DuPont and former DuPont employees who allege that DuPont fraudulently induced them to terminate their...