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In re. Cellphone Fee Termination Cases

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Sanctions
In a class action dispute challenging the validity of early termination fees (ETFs) in cell phone contracts, judgment by trial court in favor of...

US v. Akinrosotu

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Judgement Enforcement, Remedies, Sanctions
In an appeal of order by district court denying petition by defendant to modify post-conviction fine, 18 U.S.C. section 3583(e)(2), order affirmed...

US v. Pescatore

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies, Sanctions, White Collar Crime
In a criminal action involving the conviction of defendant for operating chop shops in violation of 18 USC sections 2322, and of extortion offenses in...

Johnson v. Rundle

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sanctions
Following a circuit court's denial of an inmate's pro se petitions seeking extraordinary relief, challenging the lawfulness of his 1998 conviction for...

Norelus v. Denny's, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
In a sexual harassment action, the district court's order sanctioning plaintiff's counsel for attempting to substantially modify plaintiff's...

Latin Am. Music Co. v. Am. Soc'y of Composers Authors & Publishers

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Sanctions
Plaintiff's second motion for reconsideration of the district court's grant of defendant's motion for attorneys' fees incurred on appeal for...

US v. S. Union Co.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Environmental Law, Government Law, Sanctions
A natural gas company's conviction for storing hazardous waste without a permit, is affirmed where: 1) defendant is precluded by 42 U.S.C. section...

Lamboy-Ortiz v. Ortiz-Velez

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
In former police officers' suit against a mayor and various members of a police department, each of whom belong to the opposition Popular Democratic...

Arnold v. ADT Security Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Sanctions
In plaintiffs' appeal from the district court's order (i) granting defendant's motion to compel further discovery responses and requiring plaintiffs...

Harmston v. City and Cty. of San Francisco

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
In plaintiff's appeal from the district court's order sanctioning plaintiff and his attorney for violating the court's discovery protective order, the...