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Lewis v. Clarke

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Indian Law
In a personal injury suit brought against an employee of a tribal casino, who was involved in an auto accident while acting in the scope of his...

Jackson v. Mayweather

Civil Procedure, Sports Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought following the break up of plaintiff's relationship with a former boxing champion, alleging invasion of privacy (both public...

Zarda v. Altitude Express

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a skydiver who alleges that he was fired from his job as a skydiving instructor because of his sexual orientation, asserting that...

Chung v. Studentcity.com

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant, a provider of vacations for students, is reversed where the...

Goethel v. US Dep't of Commerce

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Agriculture, Government Law
In a commercial action, brought by a commercial fisherman challenging various provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management...

Dunson v. Cordis Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a mass action in which defendant invoked the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) mass action provision as the basis for removing to federal...

The Urban Wildlands Group v. City of Los Angeles

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Environmental Law
In an environmental action, challenging defendant city's finding that a project was exempt from formal environmental review, the trial court's grant...

Sumrall v. Modern Alloys, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Civil Procedure, Transportation
In an injury and tort action arising from plaintiff employee's collision with a motorcycle while commuting to defendant employer's yard and claim of...

In re: Lipitor Antitrust Litig.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, Drugs & Biotech
In consolidated appeals involve allegations that defendant companies holding the patents for Lipitor and Effexor XR delayed entry into the market of...

Applied Medical Corporation v. Thomas

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Corp. Governance, Contracts
In a corporate governance action, arising from plaintiff corporation's suit over the exercise of its right to repurchase shares of its stock, given to...