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HAMBURG v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Lower court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant in a suit for false arrest and false imprisonment of protesters at one of its stores. The...

HART v. WAL-MART STORES, INC. ASSOCS. HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
A petition to apportion claims to a settlement fund between an ERISA plan subrogation claim and other lienholders is not preempted by ERISA's civil...

GOLIGHT, INC. v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court did not err in ruling that defendant willfully infringed claim 11 of plaintiff's patent by importing portable, wireless,...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. WORKER'S COMP. APPEALS BD.

Workers' Compensation
The order of the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board is annulled where an employee who files a workers' comp claim seeking benefits for an injury to...

FREEMAN v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law
The trial court appropriately concluded that a shopping card service fee was not an unconscionable term and thus did not abuse its discretion in...

MOORE v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Established California law imposes slip-and-fall liability only if the store owner had actual or constructive knowledge of the dangerous condition...

LONDON v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Insurance Law
Granting of class certification is reversed in an action alleging violations of Florida laws regulating credit life insurance, as plaintiff failed to...

ADMIN. COMM. OF THE WAL-MART STORES, INC. ASSOCS. HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN v. VARCO

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A health and benefit plan's claim, seeking reimbursement for medical expenses paid in connection with an employee's car accident, is equitable under...

ADMIN. COMM. OF WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. SOLES

ERISA
Plan administrator's subrogation claim was untimely, as it accrued when administrator was notified that beneficiaries did not hold any money from...

MORRIS v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgment as a matter of law for a department store in a slip-and-fall case is reversed where material evidence was sufficient for an inference that...