all - Opinion Summaries

Adamson v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-plan administrator in an ERISA case alleging wrongful denial of benefits and a breach of fiduciary duty is...

Dore v. Arnold Worldwide, Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A court of appeals' reversal of summary judgment for an employer on causes of action relating to plaintiff's termination is reversed where: 1)...

Caman v. Cont'l Airlines, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Transportation
Summary judgment for an airline in an action under the Warsaw Convention is affirmed where the district court correctly ruled in favor of the airline...

Kaucher v. County of Bucks

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a corrections officer and his wife against a county and employees responsible for the operation of a...

Sanford v. Stiles

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment against plaintiff, the mother of a boy who committed suicide, in a civil rights action against a school district and one if its...

In re: Nazi Era Cases Against German Defendants Litig.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a case involving allegations that defendants, German companies, had cooperated with the Nazi regime in causing plaintiff's sterilization, dismissal...

Fini v. Glascoe

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment for defendant and its employee in an action alleging spoliation of evidence and negligence involving an installation of a vehicle...

Rubio v. Cuba

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a personal injury action for failure to prosecute is reversed where plaintiff's filing of a notice of deposition, even though the...

Sanz v. Carter

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A jury verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiffs in a medical malpractice case is reversed and remanded for a new trial where a successor judge's...

Pendergrass v. R.D. Michaels, Inc.

Construction, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment determining that defendant-employers are entitled to workers' compensation immunity for a job accident which killed an employee is...