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Williams v. Fleming

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In plaintiff's suit against a bank, the US, and and an FDIC associate examiner, claiming that the associate examiner's racially motivated bias against...

Deen v. Egleston

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice action, the denial of partial summary judgment for defendant is reversed where the district court, in striking down, under...

Rumber v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to prevent the District of Columbia from acquiring a shopping center by eminent domain, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the...

Resolute Natural Resources Co. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a petition for review of certain orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declining to investigate allegedly anticompetitive...

Donahue v. Donahue

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates
Trial court's order, charging a trust with some $5 million in past and ongoing attorney fees incurred on behalf of a former trustee in defending...

Pellegrino v. Robert Half Int'l

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' action against their former employer, a temporary staffing firm, for hour and wage violations, trial court's award of plaintiffs'...

Conservatorship of John L.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a petition to establish a conservatorship of a person pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the judgment of the court of appeal is affirmed...

Miles Farm Supply, LLC v. Helena Chem. Co.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action for tortious interference alleging that defendant aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty by three of its employees,...

Bessemer & Lake Erie R.R. Co. v. Seaway Marine Transp.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an admiralty action seeking recovery of repair costs and lost profits against a cargo ship after it struck a land-based coal-loading machine...

Kode v. Carlson

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury action, a ruling for defendant is vacated where the district court did not weigh the substantiality of the evidence presented to...