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Murphy v. Deloitte & Touche Grp. Ins. Plan

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action concerning defendant's denial of disability benefits under an ERISA plan, summary judgment for defendant is vacated where: 1) the court's...

Wilcox v. Homestake Mining Co.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought under the Price-Anderson Act, 42 U.S.C. section 2210, claiming that plaintiffs suffered cancer due to exposure to radiation from...

Adrian v. Yorktown

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Remedies
In an action alleging that defendant-town, through its town supervisor and other policy-making officials, maintained an official policy under which...

In re Specht

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Intellectual Property, Trademark, Judges & Judiciary
In plaintiff's suit against Google and 47 other defendants for trademark infringement, related to Google's Android operating system for mobile phones,...

Rhodes v. Robinson

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action alleging that prison guards violated plaintiff's civil rights by retaliating against him for exercising his First Amendment right to...

Mozden v. Holder

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
A Polish family's petition for review of the BIA's affirmance of an IJ's finding the petitioners removable is denied where: 1) petitioners failed to...

Hamdi v. Napolitano

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Government Law
In a severely disabled minor child's action under the Declaratory Judgment Act (DJA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to prohibit the...

Wilson v. Rees

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's dismissal, as untimely, of an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit challenging Kentucky's lethal injection protocol under the Eighth...

SmallBizPros, Inc. v. MacDonald

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts
In an appeal arising from the entry of a contempt order against defendant enforcing a settlement agreement with plaintiff, the contempt order is...

Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Leshin

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement, Sanctions
In the Federal Trade Commission's suit against defendants for providing debt consolidation services in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act...