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Southern California Edison Company v. City of Victorville

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Public Utilities
In a personal injury action arising out of a car accident which caused plaintiff's car hit a light pole owned by defendant Southern California Edison...

Macera v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys., Inc.

Property Law & Real Estate, Banking Law, Civil Procedure
In one of the cases described in In re: Mortgage Foreclosure, where it was held that the district court erred in issuing an injunction, the case is...

Fryzel v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys., Inc.

Property Law & Real Estate, Banking Law, Civil Procedure
In consolidated cases brought by plaintiffs, defaulted mortgagors of Rhode Island real estate, to prevent foreclosure or eviction, on the shared...

Robert Bosch, LLC v. Pylon Manufacturing Corp.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
28 U.S.C. section 1292(c)(2) confers jurisdiction on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to entertain appeals from patent infringement...

US v. Ortho Biotech Products, LP

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising, Health Law
In a qui tam action for alleged violations of the federal False Claims Act arising from defendant's marketing of the pharmaceutical drug Procrit,...

Martinez v. Brownco Construction Co., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In the context of Section 998 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a cost recovery provision that was enacted to encourage the settlement of lawsuits prior...

Johnson v. SmithKline Beecham Corp

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law
In a case seeking redress for lifelong physical and emotional suffering arising out of a now-banned drug thalidomide, appeal of the District Court's...

Interfaith Community Organization v. Honeywell International, Inc

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
The district court's declaration that the offers of judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 68 were null and void, is reversed, and the attorney's fee...

Brisbane Lodging L.P. v. Webcor Builders, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts
Summary judgment for defendants in action involving a latent construction defect is affirmed, where: 1) public policy principles applicable to the...

Heineman-Guta v. Guidant Corporation

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) alleging defendants engaged in a kickback scheme to promote the sale and use of their...