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Ultimate Appliance CC v. Kirby Co.

Civil Procedure
District court's denial of plaintiff's motion for a filing extension, holding that it had no authority to grant filing extension once the Rule 4...

Airframe Sys. Inc. v. Raytheon Co.

Civil Procedure, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
In a copyright infringement action involving plaintiff's software source code, district court's dismissal of plaintiff's suit under the doctrine of...

Adams v. Adams

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In a father's suit seeking enforcement of the terms of a promissory note executed by his son in connection with funds given by the father to help his...

Evanston Ins. Co. v. Dillard Dept. Stores Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Intellectual Property, Judgement Enforcement, Trademark
In defendants' appeal from the district court's summary judgment order holding them personally liable to plaintiff for a judgment originally entered...

Dobbs v. Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action alleging failure to comply with the terms of a health insurance policy, dismissal of the complaint is reversed where: 1) under the law of...

Duane Reade, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an action seeking insurance proceeds based on the destruction of a drug store in the September 11, 2001 attacks, dismissal of the complaint is...

Cleveland v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's petition in the Tax Court to keep the IRS from increasing the amount of income tax withheld from his wages, dismissal of his case for...

Wrightsell v. Cook County

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Civil Procedure
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a county claiming that the failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail's...

HIF Bio, Inc. v. Yung Shin Pharms. Indus. Co., Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
On remand from the Supreme Court's reversal of a decision that the Federal Circuit lacked appellate jurisdiction to review a district court's remand...

National Meat Ass'n. v. Brown

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law
In the State of California's appeal from a preliminary injunction prohibiting the enforcement of California Penal Code section 599f, which banned the...