all - Opinion Summaries

Capone v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking disability benefits from an insurer, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where: 1) even if plaintiff's dive off a...

Runner v. N.Y. Stock Exch.

Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action based on an injury plaintiff sustained while using a pulley to move a reel of wire down a small flight of stairs, judgment as a matter of...

Cellphone Termination Fee Cases

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law
In a class action lawsuit against Sprint alleging that cell phone handsets sold by the defendant-company secretly had been locked with programming...

Cornejo v. Bell

Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on actions taken by the employees of the New York City Administration for Children's Services in connection...

Vallies v. Sky Bank

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a putative class action against a bank claiming violation of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) disclosure requirements involving loans to finance...

In re W.R. Grace & Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law
In proceedings involving asbestos litigation against mining company W.R. Grace, who had sought Chapter 11 protection, and against the State of...

Esposito v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Sanctions
In plaintiff's products liability action against manufacturers and retailers of a power saw that severed his three fingers when his hand came into...

Connecticut State Dental Ass'n. v. Anthem Health Plans, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by dentists claiming that defendant health insurer employed a number of practices, such as "improper downcoding" and "improper bundling,"...

Birdsong v. Apple, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action claiming that Apple's iPod was defective because it posed an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss to its users, dismissal of...

Nemet Chevrolet, Ltd. v. Consumeraffairs.com, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an online-automobile dealer's action against a defendant-website company that allows consumers to comment on the quality of businesses, goods, and...