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US ex rel. Oberg v. Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corp.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Education Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a False Claims Act (FCA) case brought as a qui tam action, alleging defendant corporations organized by four states defrauded the US Department of...

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter

Education Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In an action brought by Tribes under the Contract Disputes Act for breach of contract, arising out of agreements with the Department of the Interior...

National Assocation of Optometrists & Opticians v. Harris

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In a suit concerns the constitutionality of certain California statutes and regulations which prohibit licensed opticians from offering prescription...

Broadcast Music, Inc. v. DMX, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law, Remedies
In a consolidated case involving two petitions requesting the court to set a "reasonable" rate pursuant to antitrust consent decrees, after music...

In the Matter of N. Syracuse Central Sch. Dist. v. New York State Div. of Human Rights

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
A public school district is not an "education corporation or association" as contemplated by Executive Law section 296 (4), and therefore, the New...

Slaughter v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against action brought by survivors and estate of a new recruit for the Baltimore City Fire Department, who tragically...

Cyr v. McGovran

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case that included a cause of action for negligence claiming that a real estate brokerage and agent had negligently failed to assure that their...

Shifren v. Spiro

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Family Law, Legal Malpractice, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In a legal malpractice action against brought after a court determined in the plaintiff's marriage dissolution action that trust documents prepared by...

Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Remedies
In a case in which the respondent was the prevailing party in a civil action instituted by the petitioner, an award of the cost of translating...

Chakalis v. Elevator Solutions, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit stemming from injuries sustained in an elevator fall, in which the jury found the plaintiff's treating physician 52 percent at fault, a...