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Bakalar v. Vavra

Government Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action seeking a declaration that plaintiff was the owner of a drawing by Egon Schiele, judgment for plaintiff is vacated where: 1) although it...

Funai Elec. Co., Ltd. v. Daewoo Elec. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Law
In a patent infringement suit pertaining to various electrical and mechanical components of video cassette players and recorders (VCRs), judgment of...

Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Chimet, S.P.A.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, International Law, Transportation
In Delta Airlines' suit for declaratory judgment seeking to limit its liability for losing approximately 100 kilograms of pure platinum shipped from...

Lechoslaw v. Bank of America

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In plaintiff's suit against a bank for damages, claiming that a four-and-a-half month delay in receiving his $31,787.34 disrupted the construction of...

Karpenko v. Leendertz

Family Law, Government Law, International Law
In a child custody dispute, a grant of a mother's petition for the child's return under the Hague Convention of the Civil Aspects of International...

City of N.Y. v. Permanent Mission of India to the U.N.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an action by New York City against certain foreign missions for unpaid property taxes, a denial of defendants' motion to dismiss is reversed where...

OSS Nokalva, Inc. v. European Space Agency

Commercial Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, International Law
In a software corporation's suit against the European Space Agency (ESA), for breach of contract relating to license agreements and corresponding...

Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain

Civil Procedure, Entertainment Law, Government Law, International Law
In an action by an American citizen whose grandmother's Pissarro painting was allegedly confiscated in 1939 by an agent of the Nazi government in...

Thai I-Mei Frozen Foods Co., Ltd. v. US

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Government Law, International Law, International Trade
In an anti-dumping duty case, involving frozen and canned warmwater shrimp from Thailand, the Court of International Trade's decision reversing and...

Kern County Dep't of Human Serv. v. Superior Court

Civil Procedure, Government Law, International Law, Juvenile Law
A County Department of Human Services' petition for a writ of mandate, challenging a juvenile court's refusal to find that the department properly...