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HOLDEN FARMS, INC. v. HOG SLAT, INC.

Agriculture, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a case where plaintiffs are suing up the stream of commerce, breach of contract claim was properly dismissed because the one-year limitation for...

CONSUMER ELEC. ASS'N. v. FCC

Commercial Law, Communications Law
Petition for review is denied where an FCC order, requiring all televisions with a display of 13 inches or greater and certain other devices include a...

DJ MFG. CORP. v. TEX-SHIELD, INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Dismissal of claims alleging a violation Puerto Rican antitrust statute, 10 P.R. Laws Ann. section 264, for conspiring to destroy competition for...

INTERGEN N.V. v. GRINA

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
The de novo legal standard controls in cases brought under chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. sections 201-208. Where neither...

WILLIAMSON OIL CO., INC. v. PHILIP MORRIS USA

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Commercial Law
In an action alleging collusion to fix cigarette prices, summary judgment in favor of the defendant manufacturers is affirmed where the pricing...

MORTON INT'L, INC. v. A.E. STALEY MFG. CO.

Environmental Law
Where factual issues remain with respect to defendant's role in the release of pollutants at a mercury processing facility, defendant may be...

US v. BAXTER INT'L, INC.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The district court erred in dismissing for failure to state a claim the government's complaint in intervention. The complaint sought to recover for...

IN RE FORD MOTOR CO.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Product Liability
The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a motion to dismiss, on forum non conveniens grounds, certain product liability suits for...

TRANSUE v. AESTHETECH CORP.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The district court should have instructed on strict liability with respect to appellant's manufacturing defect claim in a suit alleging a defective...

HONEYWELL INT'L, INC. v. INT'L TRADE COMM'N

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Patent
Claims of a patent disclosing a process for production of a polyester product were insolubly ambiguous, thus the U.S. International Trade Commission...