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FULLER v. HARTFORD LIFE INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Where decedent was a lifelong resident of Arkansas, and received credit card insurance application and billing statements there, Arkansas law applied...

LEE v. FERRARO

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Where the female defendant was stopped by a male officer for excessive honking of her car's horn, the officer was entitled to qualified immunity on a...

LAUREN H. v. KANNAPPAN

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Given the conflicting evidence of liability, the jury's mishandling of both aspects of damages, and the presence of the other many signs of a...

JOHNSON v. ELK LAKE SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In determining whether to admit evidence of prior sexual misconduct under Federal Rule of Evidence 415, the court need not make a finding under Rule...

ANTHONY v. CHEVRON USA, INC.

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Although plaintiffs' expert's testimony raised suspicions about the defendant's operations in the area of plaintiffs' property, because the expert...

BECHTEL PETROLEUM OPERATIONS v. CONTINENTAL INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Insurers had no duty to defend plaintiff, because the absolute pollution exclusions in the insurance policies operated to exclude coverage for bodily...

UTTS v. SHORT

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
To establish entitlement to settlement credits, under Chapter 33 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, if a nonsettling plaintiff benefited...

HESS v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Injury & Tort Law
If a plaintiff's release agreement, entered into with one tortfeasor and his insurance company, contains broad language releasing all potential...

BI-RITE PETROLEUM, LTD. v. COASTAL REFINING & MARKETING, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
Although the defendant foreclosed upon the plaintiff's property, without testimony that the plaintiff was targeted for outrageous conduct, that...

WATSON v. JOHNSON MOBILE HOMES

Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
Under BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996), the size of punitive damages award of $700,000 in this case makes it constitutionally...