all - Opinion Summaries

In re IndyMac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
The district court's order partially denying motions to intervene by proposed intervenors is affirmed, where: 1) American Pipe & Construction Co. v....

Plaza v. New York Health and Hospitals Corporation

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Where a medical malpractice action accrues during infancy, the extension of time to serve notice of a claim against a public corporation is limited to...

Kowalski v. St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In suit for negligence and medical malpractice, judgment for defendants is affirmed, where, on the facts of this case, defendants, a hospital and an...

Stansbury v. Wertman

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In a 1983 action alleging false arrest and malicious prosecution, the district court's denial of defendant's motion for summary judgment is reversed...

ONY, Inc. v. Cornerstone Therapeutics, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Judgment dismissing plaintiff's complaint alleging that defendants' article, and the distribution of selections from it, violates the Lanham Act and...

City of San Buenaventura v. The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-insurers in a declaratory judgment action brought by plaintiff to establish insurance coverage in an underlying...

Cann v. Stefanec

Injury & Tort Law, Sports Law
Summary judgment for defendant in negligence action in which plaintiff, a UCLA swim team member alleged that she was injured when defendant, her...

Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. v. Bartlett

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
State-law design-defect claims that turn on the adequacy of a drug's warnings are pre-empted by federal law under PLIVA. Inc. v. Mensing, which held...

Drake v. Pinkham

Elder Law, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
Summary judgment entered in favor of defendants, on plaintiff's petition to invalidate two amendments to a revocable trust, for a declaration that...

Vidro v. United States

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), alleging that two federal law enforcement officers maliciously and...