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103 Investors I, L.P. v. Square D Co.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
A judgment for defendant on plaintiff's products liability claims arising from an electrical system malfunction and a building fire is affirmed over...

In Re: African-Am. Slave Descendants Litig.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal for lack of standing of a series of class actions under 42 U.S.C. section 1982 brought by descendants of African-American slaves against...

Rasmussen v. Collier County Publ'g Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a libel suit brought by an entrepreneur who established ESPN, finding that articles and editorials about which he...

Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Genovese, M.D.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a statutory first-party bad faith action against an insurer arising from its ceasing payments on a disability income policy, a petition for writ of...

Carnival Corp. v. Booth

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of a cruise ship company's motion to dismiss a negligence suit arising out of the death of a passenger is reversed where the company did not...

Moreno v. Diaz

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
Order granting defendants a new trial as to past and future medical expenses awarded by a jury in a personal injury case is affirmed where there was...

Brown v. Lippard

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that a correctional officer used excessive physical force against him while he was incarcerated,...

Hickerson v. Pride Mobility Prods. Corp.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit brought by plaintiff, who lost his wife and home in a fire, alleging a motorized wheelchair or scooter defendants manufactured and sold to...

Sammons v. Doctors for Emergency Servs., P.A.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an appeal from a jury verdict for defendants in a medical malpractice action arising from a patient's death allegedly due to sepsis, the judgment...

Mirza v. Trombley

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In the context of medical malpractice, an investigatory affidavit's failure to individually name a particular defendant is not fatally defective, so...