all - Opinion Summaries

Lowe v. Hearst Communications, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a suit against Hearst Communications and Hearst Newspapers Partnership seeking damages stemming from invasion of privacy based on an article...

Med. Liability Mut. Ins. Co. v. Alan Curtis LLC

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory judgment action to clarify insurance company's obligation under insurance policies to defend defendants in state court negligence...

Riley v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit for injuries caused by the alleged negligence of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), dismissal of the complaint...

Bradshaw v. School Bd. of Broward County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving a state's purported limitation on judgments against itself and its agencies, judgment against defendant school board finding that...

Mitchell v. McNeil

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action involving a claim that a city, agencies, and police officers violated plaintiff's substantive due process rights when they permitted a...

Kollman v. Hewitt Assocs., LLC

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of ERISA section 104(b)(4), which requires that plan administrators furnish certain documents to participants upon request, the circuit...

J.E. Jones Constr. Co. v. Chubb & Sons, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit alleging that defendants-insurers were obligated to indemnify plaintiff-construction company for liability incurred in an underlying...

OnePoint Solutions, LLC v. Borchert

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a diversity action brought by a company against former members of its Board of Governors raising state law claims arising from payments authorized...

Brandon Reg'l Hosp. v. Murray

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A claimant in a medical malpractice case is entitled to discovery of the privileges granted to a physician by a hospital, but is not entitled to the...

Del Junco v. Hufnagel

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In case involving the creation of a counterfeit website that looked like, and defamed, plaintiff's website, default judgment entered in favor of...