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Pride v. Correa

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The district court's dismissal of plaintiff-prisoner's claim that defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by acting with deliberate...

Mortensen v. Bresnan Communications, LLC

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
The district court's decision not to enforce an arbitration clause and a choice of law clause in defendant's broadband Internet service subscriber...

In re Lehman Bros. ERISA Litigation

Class Actions, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' ERISA action brought against defendants, members of Lehman's Employee Benefit Plans Committee, alleging defendants breached...

Shearin v. Brown

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law
The trial court's orders denying class certification and dismissing plaintiffs 1983 claims in an action seeking damages for allegedly being detained...

Nakahata v. New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, Inc.

Class Actions, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Order dismissing four related cases brought by current and former healthcare employees alleging defendants violated the Fair Labor Standards Act...

Irizarry v. Catsimatidis

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In a wage and hour class action, partial summary judgment for a class of plaintiffs concluding that defendant-owner of defendant supermarket was the...

Mendiola v. CPS Security Solutions

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
The trial court's order granting a preliminary injunction requiring defendant to compensate its employee-trailer guards for all on-call time spent in...

Hensley v. Koller

Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law, Juvenile Law
The district court's denial of the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment in a class action challenging South Carolina's reduction of monthly...

Watkins v. Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising
The district court's sua sponte order remanding this putative class action to state court is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the court has appellate...

The Authors Guild Inc. v. Google Inc.

Class Actions, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The district court's order certifying a plaintiff class of authors claiming that defendant committed copyright infringement by copying and displaying...