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Markovich v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
"[T]he first symptom or manifestation of onset," for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. section 300aa-16(a)(2), is the first event objectively recognizable as...

Bradley v. Earl B. Feiden, Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case involving a fire that broke out in plaintiff's kitchen that originated with plaintiff's new refrigerator, jury verdict for plaintiff on breach...

Giandana v. Providence Rest Nursing Home

Elder Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case where alleged negligent acts involved decedent, partial summary judgment for plaintiff is precluded where questions of fact remain relating to...

Borsellino v. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit by a partner in a remote stock trading company alleging fraud against an investor in his former partners' new enterprise, summary judgment...

Shadday v. Omni Hotel Mgmt. Corp.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a negligence suit arising out of the failure of a hotel to prevent the rape of the plaintiff, a guest at the hotel, by another guest, summary...

Nichols v. Moore

Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Summary judgment for film producer Michael Moore in a defamation suit brought by the brother of one of the Oklahoma City bombers is affirmed over...

Matrix Group Ltd., Inc. v. Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Sports Law
In a breach of contract, deceptive trade practices, and tortious interference suit arising from Rawlings Sporting Goods Company's termination of an...

Philip Morris USA v. Williams

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
A punitive damages award, based in part on a jury's desire to punish a defendant for harming nonparties, amounts to a taking of property from the...

Cortez v. McCauley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In cases involving claims of both unlawful arrest and excessive force arising from a single encounter, it is necessary to consider both the...

Murray v. Chicago Youth Ctr.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit arising from a boy who was rendered a quadriplegic after an accident involving a mini-trampoline used on school property, summary judgement...