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Pruell v. Caritas Christi

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a putative class action asserting violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by hospitals and health care providers, the district court's...

Cyr v. McGovran

Civil Procedure, Professional Malpractice, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit against a seller's real estate agent and broker for professional negligence in failing to assure that the sellers did not grant to their...

Peleg v. Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against the plaintiff's former employer for violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, breach of an implied-in-fact contract...

USPPS, Ltd. v. Avery Dennison Corp.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Legal Malpractice
In a suit for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud arising out of a licensee's and law firm's alleged failure to secure a patent on the licensed...

In re Pacific Pictures Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property
In a suit by the company that owns intellectual property rights to the Superman character against a movie producer-attorney, claiming that he...

In re A.G.

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
An order terminating parental rights is reversed, where the Alameda County Social Services Agency failed to investigate the father's Native American...

Brown v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In residential real estate foreclosure proceedings, a trial court order dissolving a preliminary injunction is affirmed, and the appeal is deemed...

In re Cyclobenzaprine Hydrochloride Extended-Release Capsule Patent Litigation

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In pharmaceutical patent infringement litigation: 1) the district court's judgment of invalidity of the plaintiffs' patents is reversed, where the...

Dey Pharma, LP v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action by a second generic drug maker seeking a declaratory judgment that its product did not infringe a patent, and that the patent was...

McHenry v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
In a tax case arising out of a notice of deficiency issued by the IRS to an individual who had participated in a tax avoidance scheme to take...