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In re: Fitzgerald Marine & Repair

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a defendant's appeal in a personal injury action from summary judgment to a third-party defendant on defendant's cross-claim for contractual...

Robinson v. McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech
In plaintiff's products liability suit against defendant for developing a life threatening disease after taking doses of Children's Motrin, district...

Soifer v. Chicago Title Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against a title company for negligence and negligent misrepresentations, trial court's order sustaining defendant's demurrer...

Underwriter's at Lloyd's v. Osting-Schwinn

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a negligence action by Lloyd's syndicates against a policyholder, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where the syndicates, as...

Frederick v. Swift Transp. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In a personal injury action arising out of a truck accident, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) although the driver ingested methamphetamine...

Brooks v. Gaenzle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that defendant-officers violated plaintiff's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure by use of excessive...

Georgia Pac. Consumer Prod., LP. v. Von Drehle Corp.

Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In plaintiff's suit against one of its competitors for violation of various federal and state laws, for marketing and selling to distributors an...

Khoury v. Philips Med. Systems

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability action based on injuries sustained by plaintiff-doctor in using defendant's medical equipment, summary judgment for defendant...

Indian Brand Farms, Inc. v. Novartis Crop Prot. Inc.

Agriculture, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In New Jersey blueberry farmers' suit against defendant Novartis Crop Protection, Inc., claiming damage to their crops allegedly caused by use of a...

In re: Baycol Prods. Litig.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability action, the district court's denial of appellants' motion to substitute as plaintiffs for their deceased mother is reversed...