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Scheehle v. Justices of the Supreme Court of Arizona

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action brought by an Arizona tax lawyer challenging as an unconstitutional taking the Arbitrator Appointment System of an Arizona county,...

Hamilton v. Standard Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
In an action brought against an insurer arising from its reduction of the amount of death benefits paid to plaintiff under a policy covering her...

Bakhtiari v. Lutz

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination and civil rights case brought by an Iranian former teaching assistant against a university and its dean, summary...

Commercial Money Ctr., Inc. v. Illinois Union Ins. Co.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a dispute over an insurer's obligations, which arose within part of multidistrict litigation resulting out of the collapse of plaintiff-bankruptcy...

HIF Bio, Inc. v. Yung Shin Pharms. Indus. Co., Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
A remand based on declining supplemental jurisdiction must be considered within the class of remands described in 28 U.S.C. section 1447(c), and is...

Bank of N.Y. v. FDIC

Banking Law, Contracts
Appellee, as the receiver for a subsidiary of a credit card bank, had the authority to disregard an acceleration clause requiring the payment of...

Med. Protective Co. v. Kim

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law, Remedies
In an insurance-coverage dispute involving back-to-back claims-made medical malpractice liability policies issued by two different insurers, a...

Clifton v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In a breach of contract suit against an insurer and affiliates involving defendant's termination of a contract which permitted plaintiff, as an...

Seawright v. Am. Gen. Fin. Servs., Inc.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal in a state antidiscrimination law and Family and Medical Leave Act case brought by a terminated employee against defendant-employer,...

Weber v. Mobil Oil Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
Petition for review of an order remanding to Oklahoma state court a putative class action, which defendants-oil and gas companies had previously...