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Little v. Jones

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) and several employees and officials at a prison...

Turner v. NTSB

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Transportation
In pilots' petition for review of the National Transportation Safety Board's order reversing an attorney's fee award to petitioners against the...

El-Shifa Pharm. Indus. Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
In an action by the owners of a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant against the U.S. for unjustifiably destroying the plant, failing to compensate...

In re: Sherwin-Williams, Co.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
A defendant's petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that a district judge be recused from presiding over four cases against manufacturers of...

Iowa Tribe of Ks. v. Salazar

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by an Indian tribe claiming that the Secretary of the Interior improperly took a small tract of land into trust on behalf of the...

Strategic Hous. Fin. Corp. of Travis County v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's suit against the U.S. to recover its arbitrage rebate, the order of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) dismissing the suit for lack...

Lahiri v. Universal Music & Video Dist. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Intellectual Property, International Law, Sanctions
In plaintiff's counsel's appeal from an order by the district court sanctioning him for his five-year bad faith pursuit of a frivolous copyright...

Usery v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to quiet title to a mineral interest, a denial of plaintiffs' motion to remand the action to state court is reversed where defendants'...

Trim Fit, LLC v. Dickey

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for breach of a noncompetition agreement and unfair competition, partial judgment for both parties is affirmed where: 1) the district...

Krupski v. Costa Crociere S.P.A.

Civil Procedure
In a personal injury action for injuries plaintiff suffered on a cruise ship, the Eleventh Circuit's affirmance of the district court's dismissal of...