all - Opinion Summaries

BLAKE v. AM. AIRLINES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Jamaica is a High Contracting Party to the Warsaw Convention, even though it joined as a member of the British Commonwealth before gaining...

NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. v. STILLEY

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law
The last maritime employer rule, assigning full liability to the last employer covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act who...

GILES v. MINERS, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
Trial court has broad discretion to decide if plaintiff's expert witness has sufficient indicia of reliability under Daubert, and factual dispute in...

KIRSCHBAUM v. WRGSB ASSOC.

Injury & Tort Law
A property owner's common law responsibility duty to detect and correct latent structural defects does not follow from the duty to maintain and...

STEINBACH v. DILLON COMPANIES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 USC 185, preempts employee's interference with contract lawsuit alleging her manager fabricated...

ALLEN v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
Under Wyoming law, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur does not apply if the plaintiff also proceeds under a negligence theory.

BURRY v. EUSTIS PLUMBING & HEATING, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
Where trial court determines that a negligence theory jury instruction is insufficient, a premises liability instruction is appropriate because...

GRENIER v. MED. ENG'G CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Where there is no evidence suggesting that the damages occurred before September 1988, the 1988 Louisiana Products Liability Act may apply....

FISHER v. TRAINOR

Injury & Tort Law
Where an individual uses the proceeds from fraud to contribute to a joint venture, rights in the joint venture are held in constructive trust for the...

MEDICINE v. US

Injury & Tort Law
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is not immune under the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act for failing to supervise logging...