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Stone v. Instrumentation Lab. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an employment retaliation action under the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, grant of defendant's motion to dismiss in favor of...

Vallies v. Sky Bank

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a putative class action against a bank claiming violation of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) disclosure requirements involving loans to finance...

In re W.R. Grace & Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law
In proceedings involving asbestos litigation against mining company W.R. Grace, who had sought Chapter 11 protection, and against the State of...

Kemps v. Beshwate

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action arising from plaintiff's arrest on a bench warrant involving her alleged failure to appear as a subpoenaed witness in a murder trial,...

Ass'n of California Ins. Co. v. Poizner

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law, Insurance Law
In plaintiff-Association of California Insurance Companies' lawsuit disputing the validity of the 2006 amendments to regulations permitting consumer...

Biscaro v. Stern

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Judgement Enforcement
Default judgment and a restraining order against defendant to stay at least 100 yards away from his ex-wife and her adult son are reversed where: 1)...

Esposito v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Sanctions
In plaintiff's products liability action against manufacturers and retailers of a power saw that severed his three fingers when his hand came into...

Connecticut State Dental Ass'n. v. Anthem Health Plans, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by dentists claiming that defendant health insurer employed a number of practices, such as "improper downcoding" and "improper bundling,"...

Birdsong v. Apple, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action claiming that Apple's iPod was defective because it posed an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss to its users, dismissal of...

Wilner v. Nat'l. Sec. Agency

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Military Law
In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action filed by attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking information regarding whether the government...