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Peregrine Funding, Inc. v. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
Plaintiffs' suit, alleging that defendant-law firm helped the perpetrators of a Ponzi scheme avoid detection and prosecution by securities regulators,...

Steinberg v. Int'l Comm'n on Holocaust Era Ins.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, International Law
Code of Civil Procedure section 354.5, which provides that California residents may bring claims arising out of Holocaust era insurance policies in...

US v. Oakland City Univ.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
Defendant-University, seeking federal subsidies under the Higher Education Act, violated the False Claims Act when it paid a recruiter contingent fees...

Lowery v. Fed. Express Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment dispute alleging race discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII, the district court abused its discretion when it...

Abdouch v. Burger

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a section 1983 suit, summary judgment in favor of social workers who removed a child with broken bones from his mother is affirmed where their...

Bowman v. Am. River Transp. Co.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an action for negligence brought under the Jones Act, judgement is reversed and the cause remanded for a trial by jury where lower courts erred in...

Aurecchione v. Schoolman Transp. Syst.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is reversed where his claim, which alleges that Title VII allows a party...

Callahan v. US

Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act is affirmed where the doctrine of fraudulent concealment could not toll her claim,...

Gordon v. ExxonMobile Corp.

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment dispute, summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer is affirmed where plaintiff's application for Social Security Disability...

Bennett v. Chertoff

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
An adverse employment action based on the denial or revocation of security clearance is not actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.