all - Opinion Summaries

Garcia v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Injury & Tort Law, Drugs & Biotech
In qui tam actions under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. section 3729 et seq., and related state statutes, alleging defendants caused physicians...

Vasilenko v. Grace Family Church

Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a plaintiff who was hit by a car and injured while crossing a busy five-lane road on his way from an overflow parking lot...

Acevedo v. US

Labor & Employment Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by plaintiffs who are employed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security (CBP), as present and...

Dietz v. Bouldin

Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Judges & Judiciary
In an action for negligence for injuries suffered in an automobile accident, in which the jury was recalled after the judge discharged them and they...

Cheffins v. Stewart

Property Law & Real Estate, Injury & Tort Law, Entertainment Law
In an action under the Visual Artists Rights Act and Nevada law, in which Plaintiffs transformed a used school bus into La Contessa, a mobile replica...

Rondon v. Hennessy Industries, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law
In an asbestos case, the trial court's grant of summary judgment to machine manufacturer defendant is reversed where: 1) the recent decision from the...

Hassell v. Bird

Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit involving defamatory posts made about an attorney by a former client on Yelp, an online review website, the trial court's judgment in favor...

McGowan v. US

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Media Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit arising out of the publication of an article authored by a prisoner, asserting claims for violation of his First Amendment rights under...

Kinda v. Carpenter

Property Law & Real Estate, Landlord Tenant Law, Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by commercial tenants seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against their landlord, alleging several...

Simmons v. Himmelreich

Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which a federal prisoner filed two suits against the U.S. and individual Bureau of Prison employees, under the Federal Tort Claims Act...