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Kinslow v. Pullara

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging improper medical treatment by corrections officials during interstate transport of plaintiff,...

In re: Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Antitrust Litig.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, International Law
In an antitrust action brought against U.S. and foreign manufacturers and sellers of DRAM computer memory by a British computer manufacturer that...

Estate of Thottam

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Evidence, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a mediation matter relating to distribution of assets to the three children of the deceased, judgment is reversed where: 1) there is nothing in...

Kempton v. City of Los Angeles

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In a complaint against a city by plaintiff-homeowner requesting action to remove fences on neighbor's property, grant of motion for judgment on the...

Christian Research Institute v. Alnor

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In proceedings following a successful anti-SLAPP motion to strike, judgment for plaintiffs reducing defendant's compensable attorney time from 600...

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. Steinbeck

Civil Procedure, Copyright, Media Law
In an action under the Copyright Act, summary judgment for defendants, on the grounds that a notice purporting to terminate a 1938 agreement granting...

In re Comdisco, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
In a bankruptcy case, appeal of denial of claimants' motion to terminate a trust created as part of the reorganization plan is dismissed for lack of...

Polski v. Quigley Corp.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability action alleging plaintiffs suffered severe and permanent impairment of their senses of taste and smell due to their use of a...

Moody v. Great W. Ry. Co.

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In an action seeking to quiet title to real property formerly used as a railroad right-of-way, defendants' appeal from an order remanding the case to...

Elephant Butte Irrigation Dist. of New Mexico v. US Dep't of the Interior

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Law, Water Law
In an action against the U.S. Department of the Interior and various federal officials challenging, inter alia, DOI's lease of project lands to New...