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Insurance Co. of N. Am. v. Pub. Serv. Mut. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In an appeal from the district court's order granting respondent's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(2) motion based on newly discovered evidence that an...

Parra v. Neal

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit, brought by registered voters against the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago and its members,...

In re McKinney

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Judgement Enforcement, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
An appeal by a tax debt owner in Chapter 13 proceedings, arising from the bankruptcy court's denial of its objections to the debtor's proposed plan to...

Simmons v. Navajo County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action against county jail personnel claiming that they negligently permitted the suicide of an inmate, summary judgment for...

EEOC v. Peabody Western Coal Co.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by the EEOC alleging that, in maintaining its employment preference for Navajo workers, defendant discriminated against non-Navajo...

Thach v. Tiger Corp.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Product Liability
In a negligence, products liability, and breach of warranty action against the Japanese manufacturer of a rice cooker which allegedly caused a fire at...

Jay E. Hayden Found. v. First Neighbor Bank, NA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a RICO suit against a bank, two law firms, and affiliated individuals, grant of defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint...

US Ex Rel. Miller v. Bill Harbert Int'l. Const., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Evidence, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a False Claims Act (FCA) action claiming that five companies and one individual rigged the bidding on three contracts in Egypt funded by the U.S....

Winnett v. Caterpillar, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an interlocutory appeal brought by Caterpillar from the district court's decision preliminarily enjoining the company to provide a subclass of 275...

Kleffman v. Vonage Holdings Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Cyberspace Law, False Advertising
In plaintiff's class action suit under section 17529.5(a)(2), which makes it unlawful to advertise in a commercial e-mail advertisement (i.e. spam)...