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Smalley v. The Dreyfus Corp.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where at-will employees sued their former employer for fraudulent inducement to enter into and remain in the employment of defendant,...

Johnson v. Dossey

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state tort law alleging false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and conspiracy against multiple public...

Zatuchni v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A judgment awarding petitioner over $800,000 under the National Vaccine Compensation Program is affirmed where, contrary to the government's claims,...

J. Maki Constr, Co. v. Chicago Reg'l Council of Carpenters

Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In a defamation suit arising from the distribution of a handbill (count I) and display of a banner (count II) allegedly imputing to plaintiffs...

Boeken v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Judgment of dismissal is affirmed where the final adjudication on the merits of plaintiff's loss-of-consortium claim against defendant results in a...

Waterson v. Hall

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Appeals from an order granting defendant's motion to stay plaintiff's medical malpractice action based on a bankruptcy discharge, as well as a...

Estate of Tucker v. Interscope Records, Inc.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law
In malicious prosecution cases brought by the estate of civil rights activist Cynthia DeLores Tucker and her husband against recording labels and...

Amadasu v. Mercy Fanciscan Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
In a pro se action against a hospital raising claims related to psychiatric treatment provided by defendants, their failure to hire plaintiff for...

Yarborough v. City of New York

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case where plaintiff tripped and fell in a pothole, dismissal of complaint by appellate division is affirmed as defendant city was entitled to...

Ornstein v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In case where plaintiff, a hospital nurse, was exposed to HIV when she was stuck by a blood-filled hypodermic needle that had been left in the bed of...