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In Re: Diet Drugs Prods. Liab. Litig.

Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action to claim payments from a settlement trust established as a result of a class-action suit over the drugs fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine,...

Hunt v. Sycamore Cmty. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's right to substantive due process by subjecting her to dangerous...

Maxwell v. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a qui tam action against defendant-oil and gas producer for defrauding the federal government by underpaying royalties for federal offshore oil...

Mills v. U.S. Bank

Banking Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a claim by plaintiff-investors for failure to deposit checks into the bank account of company, grant of summary judgment for defendant-U.S. Bank is...

Grabowski v. Mangler

Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a negligence action against plaintiffs' co-employees who were engaged in horseplay at a job site that injured plaintiff, summary judgment for...

Quattrocchi v. F.J. Sciame Constr. Co.

Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of partial summary judgment on a claim under Labor Law section 240(1), the "Scaffold Law," is affirmed where: 1) "falling object" liability...

Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of Am. v. Ernst & Young LLP

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit alleging that an accounting firm misrepresented its client's financial position, breached its fiduciary duty to plaintiff, and negligently...

Thabault v. Chait

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice, Remedies
In a malpractice case accusing an accounting firm of failing to warn an insurer that it was near insolvency, leading to the insurer's ultimate...

Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Townsend

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Education Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a university's suit claiming that defendants misappropriated plaintiff's rights and interests in a type of medical-scanning technology that the...

Newby v. Enron Corp.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In securities-fraud litigation surrounding the collapse of Enron Corp., denials of motions for leave to file suits in state court are affirmed in part...