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Shields v. Hennessey Industries, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In consolidated actions alleging that the defendant's machine for shaping brake linings that were manufactured by others and that contained asbestos...

Bush v. Horizon West

Elder Law, Injury & Tort Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action in which one plaintiff sued the operators of a skilled nursing facility for elder abuse based on their alleged neglect in providing her...

Gregg v. Ham

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a homeowner's suit against a bail bondsman and others alleging civil rights violations under 42 USC section 1983 and various state law tort claims,...

Cole v. Town of Los Gatos

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a personal injury suit in which one of the defendants was a city, summary judgment in favor of the city is reversed, where the evidence before the...

Williams v. New York

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case in which a voluntary patient of a state-run psychiatric center left the facility without consent and then nearly two years later assaulted...

Davis v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Product Liability
In a suit alleging that an oil refinery worker was exposed to asbestos and asbestos-containing products, causing mesothelioma, summary judgment to the...

Stone v. Sec'y of Health and Human Services

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In consolidated cases in which parents sought compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for injuries to their children...

Johnson v. Alameda County Medical Center

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case in which a woman involuntarily committed to a county mental institution was assaulted by a fellow patient and sued the institution and...

Knox v. Dean

Elder Law, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a dispute over a conservator's actions with regard to the plaintiff's elderly father, the trial court's grant of the conservator's motion for...

Landmark Screens, LLC v. Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, LLP

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Legal Malpractice
In a state-law fraud suit stemming from alleged acts of malpractice committed by a lawyer and his firm in connection with a patent application: 1) the...