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KALIS v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff's failure to establish that defendant manufactured the fondue pot and fuel that caused her injuries warranted summary judgment in favor of...

DOUG GRANT, INC. v. GREATE BAY CASINO CORP.

Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law
Card counting blackjack gamblers' allegations that casinos committed predicate RICO acts are completely insubstantial and border on being frivolous,...

CRUM v. CIRCUS CIRCUS ENTERPRISES

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Trial court should allow plaintiff to amend her personal injury complaint to allege injury in excess of $75,000 for federal jurisdiction, where there...

REED v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Injury & Tort Law
Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Bureau of Land Management is entitled to immunity, under the discretionary function exception, for injuries...

NOBLE v. US

Injury & Tort Law
Under the totality of circumstances, the government was not liable for contractor's injuries, because the Postal Service was "in charge" of neither...

KEMP v. MEDTRONIC, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
The Medical Device Amendments of 1976 to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 301 et seq., preempt plaintiffs' common law and products...

LEE v. E I DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Where the employee of an independent contractor is injured while disassembling a scaffold belonging to the premises owner, the "intimately connected"...

STEWART v. DUTRA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law
A large floating platform equipped with a clamshell bucket, operating as a dredge, is not a a "vessel in navigation" under the Jones Act, 46 USC 688.

CALDWELL v. ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP

Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
A revised flight manual is a new "system . . . or other part" of a helicopter, within the meaning of the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1941.

J.H. DESNICK, M.D., EYE SERV., LTD. v. AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
Evidence that local prosecutor did not believe that accuser was a credible witness does not support conclusion that publisher was "recklessly...