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Foskett v. Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit concerning the indemnification of sellers of property against post-sale personal injury claims, summary judgment for the buyers of the...

Pace v. Swerdlow

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action brought against defendant-physician who plaintiffs had hired to serve as their expert witness in a medical malpractice case, claiming...

People v. Short

Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Sentencing
Denial of motion to modify victim restitution order imposed on defendant for conviction of driving under the influence of alcohol and causing great...

Holdgrafer v. Unocal Corp.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
In an appeal following a judgment awarding $2.5 million in compensatory and $5 million in punitive damages for massive oil spills from defendant's...

J. Walter Thompson U.S.A., Inc. v. Bank of Am. Corp.

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law
In action against third-party plaintiff bank for negligence and violations of the UCC, and third-party action against collecting and presenting banks...

Brown v. Fortner

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against, inter alia, defendants-correctional officers alleging they acted with deliberate...

Brown v. Fortner

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against, inter alia, defendants-correctional officers alleging they acted with deliberate...

Ehrenfeld v. Mahfouz

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a declaratory relief action brought by plaintiff in the U.S. seeking a declaration that defendant could not prevail against plaintiff on a libel...

In re M/V DG Harmony

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In case involving liability for the explosion and resulting constructive total loss of the container ship the M/V DG Harmony, district court's finding...

Morris v. Travelers Indem. Co. of Am.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action against defendant-insurer for failure to pay insurance benefits plaintiff claimed it owed him for injuries arising out of an accident...