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Jacob B. v. County of Shasta

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
The litigation privilege of Civil Code section 47(b), which generally protects from tort liability any publication made in connection with a judicial...

Wells v. Gulf Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Transportation
Where an excess insurer's coverage is not required to satisfy a carrier's minimum level of financial responsibility under the Motor Carrier Act, the...

Meadours v. Ermel

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a decedent's estate and family under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 asserting that defendants-police officers used excessive force...

Williams. v. Beard

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's suit involving allegations that prison staff failed to protect him from assault, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where...

Weiss v. First Unum Life Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit against an insurer under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claiming it discontinued payment of plaintiff's...

Thomas v. Corwin

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in...

Thao v. City of St. Paul

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit arising from circumstances in which a police officer shot and killed a paranoid schizophrenic individual in his home after his family...

Int'l Strategies Group, Ltd. v. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit against lawyers and law firms to recover $4 million lost in a series of fraudulent transfers, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed...

Paz v. Brush Engineered Materials Inc

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Pursuant to the Mississippi Supreme Court's answer to a certified question finding that the state does not recognize a medical monitoring cause of...

Rosenberg v. Metlife, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Statements made by an employer on a National Association of Securities Dealers employee termination notice are subject to an absolute privilege in a...