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SOMMER v. DAVIS

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Expert witnesses in a medical malpractice action were not competent to testify under Tennessee law, where plaintiffs failed to disclose one witness in...

WHELAN v. WINCHESTER PROD. CO.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment dismissing RICO claim was proper, where an association-in-fact enterprise and continuity of the association were not demonstrated as...

LUIGINO'S, INC. v. PETERSON

Commercial Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
Plaintiff failed to assert facts sufficient to show a causal link between any of defendant's alleged misdeeds and its claim for damages, thus summary...

FORD v. BROWN

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
A diversity tort action should have been dismissed under forum non conveniens, where the litigation entailed a Hong Kong-centered dispute, most of the...

HIGGINS v. METRO-NORTH R.R. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A co-worker's alleged conduct, which can be imputed to the employer under respondeat superior, was insufficient for an intentional infliction of...

IN RE: U.S. LINES, INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Bankruptcy court's order, expunging tort claims against debtors for asbestos exposure, is affirmed, as the statute of limitations had expired and...

RAMBUS, INC. v. INFINEON TECHS. AG

Attorney's Fees, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment of noninfringement vacated, where the district court erred in its patent claim construction; fraud verdict cannot stand where evidence does...

ALLSTATE INS. CO. v. MENARDS, INC.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The applicable statute of limitations in Illinois, for an action for damages to property based on the doctrine of strict liability in tort brought...

IN RE: MIKE'S, INC. v. TINNON

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under Rule F(9) of the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, the district court did not err in finding that venue for an...

STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT, COUNTY OF KINGS (BODDE)

Administrative Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Compliance with the California Tort Claims Act is a procedural prerequisite to, and neither creates nor is an element of, a tort cause of action...