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Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc.

Trade Secrets, Patent
In a patent infringement action, arising after two manufacturers of ambient light sensors shared technical and financial information during...

Strothers v. City of Laurel, Maryland

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment reversed. A municipal employee who was fired a single day after threatening to file a formal racial harassment grievance was entitled...

US v. Hernandez

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed. A criminal defendant unsuccessfully challenged the jury instruction given on his affirmative defense, which claimed that as a member of a...

ING Bank N.V. v. M/V Maritime King

Commercial Law, Admiralty
Affirmed. In a case involving competing maritime lien claims against a vessel, the trial court did not err in reducing the amount of security that...

Tamplin v. Muniz

Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Reversed. California state prisoner Dwight Tamplin Jr. was entitled to a writ of habeas corpus because his 25-years-to-life sentence imposed under...

Close v. Sotheby's, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Affirmed in relevant part, finding that federal copyright law largely preempts California's Resale Royalties Act, Cal. Civ. Code section 986, which...

Padda v. Superior Court (GI Excellence, Inc.)

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
Granted a peremptory writ of mandate. In an employment-related contract dispute involving physicians, the trial court should have granted a...

Fisher v. State Personnel Bd.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Affirmed the dismissal of a former administrative law judge by the State Personnel Board for performing legal work on the side for a law firm actively...

Clientron Corp. v. Devon IT Inc.

Civil Procedure, Family Law
Vacated and remanded. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37, the district court was not required to shield a company's co-owner from a sanction...

Bakran v. Sec'y, US Dep't of Homeland Security

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part with directions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. A convicted sex...