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McConnell v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
The Feres doctrine, which prohibits suit against the government for injuries that are incident to military service, bars appellants' civil suit...

Rico v. Flores

Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In an action brought by the estates of deceased illegal immigrants arising from the immigrants' deaths while stowed in a grain hopper railroad car in...

Peterson v. County of Dakota

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law action brought by a county employee after she was terminated for falsifying a time record and making...

Admin. Comm. of the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Assocs.' Health & Welfare Plan v. Gamboa

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action brought by a family injured in a drunk driving accident, summary judgment for defendants, refusing to enforce a reimbursement...

Jennings v. Pare

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against police officers for excessive force and battery, post-verdict judgment as a matter of law for one of the officers on grounds of...

Edwards v. Snyder

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit alleging deliberate indifference to a prisoner's injuries and medical negligence, dismissal of the prisoner's complaint is reversed and the...

Hill v. Allstate Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Orders denying conservator's request to reform an automobile insurance contract to provide additional personal injury protection benefits (PIP) for...

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

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action brought by insured seeking reformation of an automobile insurance contract, summary judgment for the insurer is affirmed where 1) as a...

McAninch v. Wintermute

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Securities Law
In a breach of contract action brought by former bank directors against their insurer, an insurer may not avoid its duty to indemnify under a D&O...

Petty v. County of Franklin, Ohio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by former inmate who sustained serious injury to his jaw during a fight with other inmates, alleging county...