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In re: S. Louisiana Sugars Coop. Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action in which plaintiff sought coverage from an insurer under a commercial general liability policy after it was sued for personal injuries by...

Jenkins v. Bartlett

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an excessive force suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 brought against a police officer, a municipality and the chief of police, verdict for...

Morrow v. L.A. Unified Sch. Dist.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case arising from alleged invasion of privacy and defamation of high school principal, dismissal of action under the anti-SLAPP statute is affirmed...

Jackson v. Axelrad

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice case in which both the physician and patient were doctors, a court of appeals ruling reversing a take-nothing judgment and...

Velazquez v. City of Hialeah

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
On petitions for rehearing seeking clarification of reversal of summary judgment as to two of the defendants, district court's holding, that plaintiff...

Jaskolski v. Gonzales

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit where defendants accused of false prosecution for insurance fraud sought classification as federal employees for purposes of federal...

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Rosenthal

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an insurer's declaratory judgment action against an insured alleging that his underinsured motorist claim was time barred by Pennsylvania's...

Lombardi v. Whitman

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving plaintiffs who performed search, rescue, and clean-up work at the World Trade Center site after 9/11, with allegations that federal...

Ruminer v. Gen. Motors Corp.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability suit alleging that injuries plaintiff sustained in an accident were a result of defects in the air bag and seat belt, summary...

McKinnon v. Otis Elevator Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In the context of workers- compensation and an employer-s subrogation action against an alleged third-party tortfeasor, when an employer fails to...