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In re Roberts

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Petition for writ of mandamus challenging a court of appeals' grant of mandamus relief from an order granting plaintiffs a 30-day grace period to...

Fry v. Pro-Line Boats, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Remedies, Transportation
In an action brought by a plaintiff-buyer against the manufacturer of a boat he purchased asserting claims for breach of express warranty and implied...

Wegener v. Johnson

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice suit, judgment in favor of defendant-obstetrician is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not err in excluding...

Gross v. Town of Cicero

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
On a motion to reconsider dismissal of plaintiff's appeal for failure to prosecute, the circuit court gives appellant's counsel the choice of paying a...

New York Civil Liberties Union v. Grandeau

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
In a First Amendment case stemming from a state lobbying commission's inquiry into whether plaintiff-organization incurred reportable lobbying...

Whitehead v. Habig

Civil Procedure
Grant of summary adjudication based on defendant's failure to comply with pleading requirements for opposing summary adjudication and default...

Shufelt v. Hall

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
The prisoner-delivery rule applies to appeals filed by pro se incarcerated litigants.

Pavey v. Conley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an interlocutory appeal from a decision finding that a prisoner plaintiff in a suit for damages governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act is...

M.M.R.-Z v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an interlocutory appeal in an action arising from the termination of a cognitively disabled homebound minor's educational services provided by the...

Negron-Almeda v. Santiago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an employment discrimination case premised on a claim of political connivance wherein the district court used its equitable powers to augment the...