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Samantar v. Yousuf

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by persons who were persecuted by the Somali government during the 1980s, alleging that defendant, who then held high-level government...

Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors of Allegheny Health, Educ. & Research Found. v. Price WaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
In a now bankrupt nonprofit company's committee's action against a financial auditing company for breach of contract, professional negligence, and...

Scalzo v. Am. Express Co.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's action for invasion of privacy, violation of California Financial Information Privacy Act, and other claims, trial court's grant of two...

Lucky United Properties Inv., Inc. v. Lee

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Judgement Enforcement, Property Law & Real Estate
Trial court's grant of defendants' motion to compel plaintiff's attorney to acknowledge the satisfaction of a prior order for attorney's fees and...

Shandong Yinguang Chem. Indus. Joint Stock Co. v. Potter

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action against the individual owner of a corporation seeking to pierce the corporate veil based on common law fraud and fraudulent inducement,...

Tiara Condo. Assoc., Inc. v. Marsh & McLennan Cos.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action for breach of contract between an insurance broker and the association responsible for managing a condominium tower located on Singer...

Nattah v. Bush

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In an action claiming that the U.S. military abducted plaintiff into slavery and forced him to serve on the front lines in Iraq, dismissal of the...

Chude v. Jack In The Box Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit against Jack in the Box for sustaining second degree burns when she spilled coffee she had just purchased at the defendant's...

Villa Vicenza Homeowners Ass'n v. Nobel Court Dev., LLC

Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a homeowners association's suit for construction defects, trial court's denial of developers' motion to compel arbitration is affirmed as the...

Martinez v. Ford Motor Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In an action for strict and negligent product liability, brought by two survivors and the heirs and estates of two decedents from a car crash in...