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Carroll v. Fort James Corp

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a suit brought by homeowners arising from alleged dumping of hazardous waste at their homes' site is affirmed in part over challenges to...

McKenna v. City of Royal Oak

Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
An appeal from denial of summary judgment for defendants-police officers in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action is dismissed where the appeal of the...

Charnay v. Cobert

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving suit against plaintiff's former attorney and his law firm, sustaining of demurrer without leave to amend fourth amended complaint...

Doe v. Luster

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Appeal from denial of motion for attorney fees under the anti-SLAPP statute is dismissed as an order declining to award attorney fees to a plaintiff...

Ross v. Kish

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Denial of special motion to strike, under the anti-SLAPP statute, a cause of action for malicious prosecution filed against defendant by plaintiff,...

Fred Stevens Tree Co. v. Harrison

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a workers' compensation case, an order determining that appellant-tree cutting service business was claimant's employer as opposed to a staff...

Burr & Forman v. Blair

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In dispute over attorney fees awarded after settlement of mass tort litigation, district court's denial of the attorney fees claim and enjoining of...

Schneider Nat'l Carriers, Inc. v. Nat'l Employee Care Sys., Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment for workers' compensation carrier in a suit over the carrier's lien rights in a settlement agreement is affirmed where: 1)...

Fiber Sys. Int'l Inc. v. Roehrs

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Cyberspace Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, M&A, Remedies
In the context of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes various fraudulent or damaging activities related to the use of...

Cordi-Allen v. Halloran

Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a breach of contract and fiduciary duty case arising out of the breakdown in the relationship between plaintiffs and their former attorney, summary...