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Westerfeld v. Independent Processing, LLC

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Property Law & Real Estate
In a class action against a Missouri limited liability company that processed residential mortgage documents, and a California limited partnership...

Sackett v. EPA

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action seeking review of an EPA compliance order alleging that a land parcel was a wetland subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA) and that the...

Hamilton v. Palm

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a diversity negligence action, alleging that plaintiff fell and was seriously injured doing roofing work and constructing an addition on property...

Cleveland Hous. Renewal Project v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a public nuisance action against Deutsche Bank Trust Company and affiliated companies in connection with twenty-five vacant properties in and...

Reed v. City of Arlington

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case in which debtors omitted a pending $1 million-plus judgment from their sworn statements and bankruptcy filings, the...

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petro. Co.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action by residents of Nigeria claiming that Dutch, British, and Nigerian corporations engaged in oil exploration and production aided and...

Van Allen v. Cuomo

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action challenging New York Election Law sections 5-210 and 5-304, which prevented plaintiff's enrollment in a party from becoming effective...

Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. County of San Bernardino

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law
In an environmental group's suit challenging county's approval of certain residential development, trial court's order of fees and dismissal of...

Bridge Fund Cap. Corp. v. Fastbucks Franchise Corp.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a breach of contract action, a denial of defendant's motion to compel arbitration is affirmed where, as long as plaintiff's challenge to the...

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians v. US Army Corps of Eng'rs.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law
In an action challenging the federal government's plans to replace a mile of the ground-level Tamiami Trail with a bridge to increase the flow of...