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Perez-Torres v. State of California

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff's suit, alleging that he was mistakenly taken into custody by parole and INS agents and incarcerated, is dismissed based on the immunity...

Green v. State of California

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a disability discrimination claim, a jury properly found that defendant-employer, in failing to provide plaintiff with reasonable accommodation for...

Knight v. Hayward Unified Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's claim, arising from the fact that his group health insurance policy provided by his employer does not cover in vitro fertilization, does...

Copper Tire & Rubber v. Farese

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit for tortious interference with contract and business relations, judgment in favor of defendant is vacated where the district court erred in...

Minter v. Great Am. Ins. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an insurance dispute, judgment in favor of defendant-insurer, finding that it was not liable for coverage, is vacated where an issue of fact exists...

Horizon Aggressive Growth v. Rothstein-Kass

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Florida's Long-Arm statue permits the assertion of in personam jurisdiction over an out-of-state auditing company that, in the negotiation of...

Ledbetter v. Goodyear

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit, the district court should have granted defendant-employer judgment as a matter of law where plaintiff failed to...

Jute v. Hamilton Sundstrand Corp.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employee who is named as a voluntary witness in a Title VII suit, but who is never called on to testify, is protected under Title VII's...

Sutton v. St. Jude Med.

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff has standing to seek medical testing and monitoring made necessary by the implantation of a medical device that has not yet malfunctioned or...

Pham v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action seeking insurance policy coverage, the tortfeasor was not an insured under his employer's business auto policy where his use of the...