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WINTER v. DC COMICS

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law
Comic books at issue contain significant creative elements that transform them into something more than mere celebrity likenesses, thus the comic...

CERVANTES v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
The "detention of goods" exception to the sovereign immunity waiver under the Federal Tort Claims Act cannot apply to the government's negligent...

AM. RIVER TRANSP. CO. v. PARAGON MARINE SERV., INC.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In an admiralty collision case, the district court did not err in determining that a barge broke free due to the negligence of defendants in managing...

MORGANROTH & MORGANROTH v. NORRIS, MCLAUGHLIN & MARCUS, P.C.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Judgement Enforcement
When a complaint alleges that an attorney has knowingly and intentionally participated in a client's unlawful conduct to hinder, delay, and/or...

LOGAN v. J&D HAULING, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In a tort case for injuries sustained by a railroad worker in a train collision, no error occurred in admitting a mechanical engineer's testimony...

TERRY v. GARCIA

Injury & Tort Law
Where the alleged cause of plaintiff's injury was an act of negligence independent of the conduct that necessitated his response, assumption of the...

DELGADO v. TRAX BAR & GRILL

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Foreseeability evidence is insufficient to establish a duty on the part of a bar to prevent or intervene in the gang attack on plaintiff, thus...

RICHARDS v. CONSOL. RAIL CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Courts in Federal Safety Appliances Act cases should focus on whether a reasonable jury could conclude that a defective railroad appliance played any...

PERSSON v. SCOTIA PRINCE CRUISES, LTD.

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's factual determinations, that ship officers resigned without giving notice and are therefore not entitled to damages for breach of...

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO (ADAMS)

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Water Law
In a toxic contamination case brought pursuant to Proposition 65, the trial court did not correctly apply the delayed discovery rule to the facts and...