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Wilz v. Kenneth W.

Family Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a case where a jury found that respondent-father/guardian breached his fiduciary duty to his incapacitated son and committed constructive fraud,...

Ramos v. Richardson

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In medical malpractice actions brought by an incarcerated pro se litigant and members of his family against respondents, a doctor and medical center,...

Cent. Ready Mix Concrete Co., Inc. v. Islas

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a negligence case in which an injured employee obtained a jury verdict against his employer, who carried no workers' compensation insurance, and...

Fortis Benefits v. Cantu

Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an insurance subrogation case wherein a medical insurer and an injured insured disputed what portion of tort settlement proceeds, if any, should go...

Westbrook v. Penley

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a negligence suit arising from circumstances in which defendant-pastor, who was also a licensed professional counselor, directed his congregation...

Stephen F. Austin State Univ. v. Flynn

Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A landowner who dedicates a public easement for recreational purposes is entitled to the protection of the recreational use statute. In an action...

Otal Investments, Ltd. v. M.V. Clary

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In case involving collision of three vessels in the English Channel, order finding plaintiff vessel to be exclusively at fault for the collision that...

Hackwell v. US

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action challenging a regulation that interprets the attorney's fee limitations set forth by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA),...

Logsdon v. Hains

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violations of pro-life advocate-plaintiff's constitutional rights and asserting various state law claims...

Corder v. Corder

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a consolidated wrongful death action wherein one defendant settled with the decedent's wife and his adult daughter for an unapportioned lump sum of...