all - Opinion Summaries

Wingert & Assocs., Inc. v. Paramount Apparel Int;'l

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
Dismissal of plaintiff's unjust enrichment claim and a judgment pursuant to a jury verdict awarding plaintiff damages under the Minnesota Termination...

Au-Tomotive Gold, Inc. v. Volkswagen of Am., Inc.

Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark, Transportation
The Lanham Act prevents a maker of automobile accessories from selling, without a license or other authorization, products bearing exact replicas of...

NicSand, Inc. v. 3M Co.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Transportation
In an antitrust action brought by a marketer of automotive abrasives against a competitor, 3M, involving its exclusive dealing contracts with...

Keystone Consol. Indus., Inc. v. Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau

Contracts, Environmental Law, Insurance Law
Under Illinois law, the duty to indemnify may arise even in absence of a lawsuit triggering the duty to defend, thus summary judgment for...

Patton v. Keystone RV Co.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant-employer in a constructive discharge case is reversed and remanded for trial where the alleged touching of an intimate...

Thompson v. Hirano Tecseed Co., Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit against a manufacturer of an industrial laminator alleging design-defect and failure-to-warn claims arising out of a workplace injury,...

In re: Kaiser Aluminum Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, ERISA, Elder Law
When an employer in Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeks to terminate multiple pension plans voluntarily under the "reorganization test," Congress intended the...

Louisville Bedding Co. v. Pillowtex Corp.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Denial of plaintiff's motion for partial relief from a final judgment of noninfringement of a patent covering a type of mattress pad is affirmed where...

U.S. v. Rosby

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies, Sentencing
Convictions and sentences for mail and wire fraud are affirmed where: 1) reliance is not an aspect of the materiality element in mail-fraud...

Cummins Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Government Law, International Law, International Trade, Tax Law
Summary judgment for the government, holding that the crankshafts imported by plaintiff into the U.S. did not originate in Mexico and were not...