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Halo v. Yale Health Plan

Insurance Law, Health Law, Administrative Law
In a civil action, brought by insured plaintiff claiming that defendant violated the Department of Labor's claims-procedure regulation, 29 C.F.R....

Vanacore and Associates, Inc. v. Rosenfeld

Property Law & Real Estate, Contracts
In a case arising under California's Unclaimed Property Law (UCL) brought by a private investigation firm that specializes in the recovery of...

Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London v. Arch Specialty Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Construction
In an dispute between two insurers that shared "indemnification" costs (but not "defense" costs) to settle claims made against mutual insureds in...

Animal Legal Def. Fund v. FDA

Drugs & Biotech, Government Law
In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case, challenging the FDA's decision to redact certain commercially-sensitive information concerning...

Mission Hosp. Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Burwell

Government Law, Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a Medicare action, appealing the Department of Health and Human Service's decision that petitioner cannot receive Medicare reimbursement for...

US v. Pete

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Sentence for second degree and felony murder, arising from the gang rape and murder of the hitchhiking victim, and imposed after defendant's prior...

Mitchell v. Garrison Protective Services, Inc.

Labor & Employment Law, Judgement Enforcement
In a judgment enforcement action, arising out of an underlying sex-discrimination lawsuit in which default judgment was entered against defendant...

Johnson v. Patterson

Family Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
In a civil rights action, challenging police officer defendant's arrest of plaintiff following her refusal to allow Child Protective Services to...

Villery v. Dept. of Corr. & Rehab.

Civil Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to prisoner's petition for writ of mandate seeking an order directing personnel at the California...

Jones v. Super. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Judges & Judiciary
In a case concerns whether the one-judge-court deadline under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6, which delineates the process by which a litigant...