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O-Dea v. Bunnell

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where plaintiff-correctional officer was injured while quelling a fight between rival prison gangs, defendants-prison officials did not...

Conroy v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal.

Contracts, Education Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case arising from decedent's decision to donate his body to the medical school at U.C. Irvine, judgment for defendant is affirmed over plaintiff...

Specialty Nat'l Ins. Co. v. OneBeacon Ins. Co.IN

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit over indemnification of a policyholder for liability arising out of a catastrophic accident, summary judgment for defendant is reversed and...

McNairy v. C.K. Realty

Injury & Tort Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In landlord-tenant dispute, damages for emotional distress are available under former Civil Code section 1942.4(b)(1).

Cisneros v. Aragon

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a suit brought by a Mexican citizen under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and 18 U.S.C. section 2255(a) against defendant for alleged sexual offenses...

Matreale v. State of New Jersey Dep't of Military & Veterans Affairs

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
The Feres doctrine of intra-military immunity bars a suit raising state law claims for damages for injuries arising from, or in the course of activity...

Peete v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against individual firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians, denial...

Colavito v. N.Y. Organ Donor Network

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case raising issue of whether the intended recipient of an organ donation can bring a private cause of action for common law conversion or under...

Steen v. Myers

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a police officer involved in a high speed chase that resulted in the death of a motorcycle...

Wagner Constr. Co. v. Pac. Mech. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law
Where parties have agreed to arbitrate any dispute arising out of their contract, the affirmative defense that the statute of limitations has run is...