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Berg v. Albany Ladder Co., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Workers' Compensation
The protections of Labor Law section 240(1) do not apply to every worker who falls and is injured at a construction site. In a case involving a...

Cadle Co. II, Inc. v. Fiscus

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Debt Collection, Judgement Enforcement
Mere passage of time between an original California money judgment and a subsequent revival action during which a debtor-party had no additional...

Laabs v. City of Victorville

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Transportation
In a multi-party lawsuit brought by a plaintiff injured in an automobile collision wherein one of plaintiff's purported claims was against...

Phillips v. Prairie Eye Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a lawsuit brought by a Massachusetts plaintiff claiming defendant breached an alleged employment contract entered in and for a job in Illinois,...

Engel v. Loyfman

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts
An order granting defendant's motion to vacate an agreed settlement order in his suit to enforce an attorney retainer agreement and the court's sua...

Kahn v. Dept. of Justice

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging that plaintiff's transfer from South Carolina to an Atlanta Field Division of the DEA was in retaliation for making protected...

Amaral v. Cintas Corp. No. 2

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an appeal presenting numerous legal issues concerning the constitutionality and application of a living wage ordinance which was enacted by a city...

Derek Andrew, Inc. v. Poof Apparel Corp.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Trademark
An award to plaintiff of $15,000 in statutory damages under the Copyright Act, along with nearly $300,000 in attorney's fees, is reversed and remanded...

Simpson v. Thomas

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendant-corrections officer used excessive force after plaintiff did not comply with his...

Golden v. CH2M Hill Hanford Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a tort action arising from an accident at a nuclear facility wherein some toxic liquid was splashed on plaintiff, summary judgment for defendant is...