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Brown v. Eli Lilly and Co.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action alleging death due to mental health treatment with the prescription drug Zyprexa, appeal of summary judgments in favor of...

City of New York v. Group Health Inc.

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, M&A
In antitrust dispute arising from a action by plaintiff seeking to prevent defendant-healthcare providers from merging, summary judgment in favor of...

Bullock v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, cs_82, False Advertising, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
In an action for products liability, fraud and other theories arising from the plaintiff's affliction with lung cancer because her 45-year habit of...

Oliver v. Ralphs Grocery Co.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, cs_83, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action under the Americans with Disabilities Act alleging that the defendant's grocery store failed to accommodate plaintiff's disability, 42...

Thomson v. Canyon

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty arising from an allegedly foiled arrangement to salvage plaintiff's home from foreclosure,...

Vazquez-Rijos v. Anhang

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action by a former wife, indicted for the murder of her husband, seeking a share of the husband's sizable estate, judgment of the district court...

Yonemoto v. Department of Veterans Affairs

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an interlocutory appeal concerning an FOIA dispute involving Exemption 6 redactions of certain emails disclosed by defendant, partial summary...

Gray Holdco, Inc v. Cassady

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving the enforceability of an arbitration provision contained in an employment contract, judgment of the district court denying...

In re Literary Works in Elect. Databases Copyright Litig.

Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a consolidated class-action dispute involving a complaint for copyright infringements arising from defendant-publishers' unauthorized electronic...

Cox v. Warwick Valley Cent. School Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Juvenile Law
In a Section 1983 action arising out of the suspension of plaintiff for misbehavior at school, summary judgment in favor of the defendant is affirmed...