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Nemariam v. The Fed. Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a takings claim against Ethiopia and the Central Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) involving bank accounts seized by Ethiopia after it expelled the Eritrean...

Schaub v. Sanchez

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a health care liability case, a court of appeals' decision reversing a ruling in favor of defendants is reversed and a take-nothing judgment is...

In re: Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Mortgage Servicing Litig.

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit alleging numerous charges against mortgage companies, denial of motion to dismiss is affirmed where the case was largely unripe for a...

Fisherman's Harvest, Inc. v. PBS & J

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case involving alleged damage to oyster growers due to dredging operations, a portion of a judgment transferring plaintiffs-oyster growers'...

Pesnell v. Arsenault

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a matter arising from a dispute with the government over ownership of two million acres of land in California, raising RICO and other...

Bakerman v. Bombay Co., Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The substantial certainty test of the intentional tort exception to workers' compensation immunity does not have an indispensable requirement that the...

Am. River Transp. Co. v. US Maritime Servs., Inc.

Admiralty, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In limitation of liability proceedings arising from circumstances in which a longshoreman employed by petitioner died when he jumped from the barge on...

Lenz v. Reed

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights suit alleging that defendant-warden was deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk that guards would impose cruel and unusual...

Shields v. Gov't Employees Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Remedies
In a declaratory action brought against plaintiff's two insurers involving the proceeds of a third-party tort settlement she received after she...

Parlour Enter., Inc. v. Kirin Group

Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In case involving agreements to develop subfranchises of ice cream parlour restaurants, jury verdict for plaintiffs is reduced as to award of lost...