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ARREOLA v. MONTEREY COUNTY

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The State of California, various counties, and public entities were correctly found liable in tort and inverse condemnation, for extensive flood...

SUZUKI MOTOR CORP. v. CONSUMERS UNION OF US, INC.

Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by an automobile manufacturer for product disparagement, based on a story in a consumer magazine that rated its vehicle "not acceptable",...

BILLINGTON v. SMITH

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
A police officer was entitled to qualified immunity for shooting and killing a motorist, while the officer was off-duty and in an unmarked police car,...

N. ILLINOIS STEEL SUPPLY CO. v. SEC'Y OF LABOR

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A citation for violation of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act (Act), issued to a steel delivery company, is not enforceable where the minimal...

SCHUETTE v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Transportation
An order of restitution, for damages arising out of an automobile accident occurring while defendant is driving with a suspended license, is not...

INTEGRAL DEV. CORP. v. WEISSENBACH

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Trade Secrets
In a complaint by a California corporation, for misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition, against a German citizen hired to manage...

IN RE COORDINATED LATEX GLOVE LITIG.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a strict liability manufacturing defect claim, judgment notwithstanding the verdict was proper where the products (latex gloves) did not differ...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. REECE

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Evidence that a premises owner's employee was in close proximity to a dangerous condition right before plaintiff fell, is not legally sufficient to...

ARGONAUT INS. CO. v. BAKER

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A workers' compensation insurance carrier must be reimbursed from settlement proceeds for benefits paid to and on behalf of an injured employee,...

WINTER v. DC COMICS

Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In recording artists' claims arising from depictions of them in a comic book series, defamation claims fail where no reasonable reader would believe...