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Jay E. Hayden Found. v. First Neighbor Bank, NA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a RICO suit against a bank, two law firms, and affiliated individuals, grant of defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint...

Estate of Charania v. Shulman

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Tax Law
In a tax deficiency case, the judgment of the tax court is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the tax court's judgment that all of the...

Estate of Schneider v. Finmann

Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Professional Malpractice, Tax Law
In a legal malpractice action alleging that defendants negligently advised decedent to transfer, or failed to advise decedent not to transfer, an...

Lingo v. Lingo

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Remedies
In plaintiff's appeal from the court of chancery's order of restitution from and requiring his sister, to return funds she misappropriated as their...

Luna v. Brownell

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
A quitclaim deed transferring property to the trustee of a trust is not void as between the grantor and grantee merely because the trust had not been...

Munn v. Briggs

Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In plaintiff's petition in probate court against his sister and brother-in-law alleging tortious interference with his inheritance expectancy, probate...

Scott v. Thompson

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In plaintiff's claims for wrongful death, negligence, and dangerous condition of public property arising from a traffic accident in which her...

Franklin Mint Co. v. Manatt, Phelps & Phelps, LLP

False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Trademark
In an action for malicious prosecution against a law firm and an attorney, who had represented the executors of the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales...

Regents of the University of California v. Kraus

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Remedies, Sanctions
In a petition by two residuary trust beneficiaries - the Regents of the University of California and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles...

Estate of Timken v. US

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Tax Law
District court's decision that transfers from an Estate trust do not fall within the statutory grandfathering exemption to the generation-skipping...