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Schipani v. McLeod

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
Where a plaintiff settled with one of several joint tortfeasors involved in a vehicle collision, judgment reducing plaintiffs' damage award by the...

Prasco, LLC v. Medicis Pharm. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that one of plaintiff's benzoyl peroxide cleansing products did not infringe various patents owned by...

St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Compaq Computer Corp.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Remedies
In an insurer's declaratory judgment action for a ruling that it had no duty to defend its insured-Compaq, a judgment finding that insurer had a duty...

Somoza v. New York City Dept. of Educ.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a suit brought by plaintiffs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), plaintiff's motion to dismiss appeal is denied, order of...

Kunz v. DeFelice

Civil Rights, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging excessive force by police in arresting and interrogating plaintiff on a drug charge, finding of liability...

Jacobsen v. Katzer

Contracts, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Remedies
In a suit alleging that defendants infringed upon plaintiff's copyright in open-source computer code by violating the copyright license's...

US v. Peterson

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
In a prosecution of defendants, who subsidized down payments to home buyers and then submitted misleading gift letters to HUD falsely stating that a...

Sec. & Exch. Comm'n v. M&A W. Inc.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A, Remedies, Sanctions, Securities Law
In an SEC enforcement action arising from the activities of a company described as a "sham incubator for startup companies", summary judgment ruling...

Coronado v. Valleyview Pub. Sch. Dist. 365-U

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Juvenile Law, Remedies
In a student's suit challenging his expulsion on due-process grounds, denial of a preliminary injunction is affirmed where, because plaintiff received...

Wilson v. Libby

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law, Remedies
In a suit by Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband alleging that employees in the Office of the Vice President and the State Department violated their...