all - Opinion Summaries

Steroid Hormone Product Cases

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising, Government Law
In a class action lawsuit against General Nutrition Companies (GNC) involving over-the-counter sales of products containing anabolic steroids, brought...

H&R Block E. Enter. Inc. v. Raskin

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law
In plaintiff-H&R Block's action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to enforcement of Maryland's Credit Services Businesses Act...

Family Winemakers of Ca. v. Jenkins

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by the plaintiffs, a group of California winemakers and Massachusetts residents, challenging Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 138 which establishes...

In Re: Jones

Asset Forfeiture, Bankruptcy Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts
In defendants' Chapter 7 proceedings, district court's judgment that plaintiff-creditor had the right to repossess their vehicle is affirmed where: 1)...

Feesers, Inc. v. Michael Foods, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law
In a suit for unlawful price discrimination under the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) against a food manufacturer and a food service management company,...

Koninklijke Philips Elec., N.V. v. Cardiac Sci. Operating Co.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit involving a cardiac defibrillator, district court's sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff-Philips' suit against defendant is...

Cellphone Termination Fee Cases

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law
In a class action lawsuit against Sprint alleging that cell phone handsets sold by the defendant-company secretly had been locked with programming...

Pendergast v. Sprint Nextel Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an appeal from the grant of defendant's motion to compel arbitration in a class action against Sprint Nextel Corp. for allegedly charging improper...

Hunton & Williams v. US Dep't of Justice

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action arising from an underlying patent infringement suit involving the Blackberry communication device, district court's judgment upholding...

Birdsong v. Apple, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action claiming that Apple's iPod was defective because it posed an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss to its users, dismissal of...