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People ex rel. Totten v. Colonia Chiques

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Judgment granting permanent injunction against Colonia Chiques, a criminal street gang, applying to a defined area of the City of Oxnard, is reversed...

Immunocept, LLC v. Fulbright & Jaworksi, LLP

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Professional Malpractice
Where determination of claim scope is a necessary, substantial, and contested element of a malpractice claim stemming from patent prosecution, there...

Air Measurement Techs., Inc. v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Professional Malpractice
In a legal malpractice case between non-diverse parties based on alleged errors by counsel in patent prosecution and patent litigation, denial of...

Mid-Continent Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Construction, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a dispute between one primary liability insurer and another primary insurer that also provides the applicable excess insurance policy, coming to...

In Re US Home Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated alleging their homes were built without shower pans, petition...

Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank, Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In the Second Circuit, a plaintiff may plead a theory of aiding and abetting liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). In an action brought by...

Galarneau v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Securities Law
In an action brought by plaintiff who was fired from her job as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, alleging defamation in connection with certain...

Kaluom v. Stolt Offshore Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought against defendant-vessel operator by a Malaysian national who was injured while working aboard the vessel, summary judgment for...

Burns v. Varriale

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In proceeding to extinguish a lien asserted under Workers' Compensation Law section 29, the Court of Appeals holds that the value of future workers'...

Launders v. Steinberg

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In action by estate of adopted six-year-old daughter against defendant, her father, who was convicted of her manslaughter, partial summary judgment...