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Bd. of Trustees of Stanford Univ. v. Superior Ct. (Umana)

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In case where real party filed a pro se personal injury complaint exactly two years after his fall, but which was signed by his father and not by real...

Nimbus Techs., Inc. v. SunnData Prods., Inc.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In dispute involving an LED tooling purchase agreement, summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff's claim for intentional interference with...

Florence v. Crescent Res., LLC

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving question of fraudulent joinder of a resident defendant in the context of removal jurisdiction, denial of plaintiffs' motions to...

Sea Hawk Foods, Inc. v. Exxon Corp.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Product Liability, Remedies
In an action brought against Exxon by the operator of a seafood processing business in Alaska for business losses resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil...

Bouggess v. Mattingly

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In the context of civil rights actions, an officer who employs deadly force against a fleeing suspect without reason to believe that the suspect is...

Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, International Trade, Military Law
In an Alien Tort Claims Act suit brought by current or former residents of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea against an international mining company...

Hamm v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Dismissal of case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act is affirmed as the general New York rule that employees...

Heiman v. Workers' Comp. App. Bd.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In case where a property manager hired an unlicensed and uninsured contractor to install rain gutters on a condominium building, and an employee of...

Macola v. Government Employees Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In bad faith action against defendant insurer, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where: 1) Florida statutes section 624.155(3)(d)'s provision...

Lowery v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In case alleging state law tort claims and involving the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, grant of motion to remand to state court is affirmed as...