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Zavras v. Capeway Rovers Motorcycle Club
The plaintiff racer appealed the judgment, which granted the summary judgment motion of the defendant racetrack in the racer's action that charged the racetrack with one count of negligence and two...
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Wanzer v. District of Columbia
The daughter's father called 911 and requested an ambulance as a result of bad headaches. The dispatcher suggested that the father take aspirin and did not send an ambulance. Nine hours later, an...
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Washmuth v. Wiles
Tenants filed a small claims action against their Landlords for $2,089.00 in security deposit, attorney fees, and court costs. The small claims court found that the Tenants had provided a permanent...
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Scott v. Turner
The parties' sales agreement required the sellers to convey good and marketable title to the land. Upon learning of a variance, the buyers refused to complete the sale. The district court held that the...
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Nielsen Lithographing Co. v. NLRB
The petitioner, an employer, and the intervenor, a union, were in collective bargaining negotiations. The employer claimed it needed to cut wages and benefits to stay competitive but refused the...
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Stamp v. Honest Abe Log Homes, Inc.
The buyers desired to have a log home built and told the sellers, who furnished log home kits, that they were seeking a "lock and key" job. The sellers' representative supplied the buyers with an...
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Block v. Rutherford
The pretrial detainees brought a class action under 42 U.S.C.S. §§ 1983, 1985, against the sheriff, certain administrators of the jail, and the county board of supervisors, challenging policies and...
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Morehead v. Turner
The defendant relatives argued that the amended complaint filed by the executor failed to adequately describe the property in questions and that the findings were not supported by the evidence. The...
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White v. Smyth
Appellees and appellants co-owned land that contained significant rock asphalt. The appellees sued the appellants for an accounting of the asphalt removed from the property. After the jury found that...
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United States v. Portrait of Wally
After World War II, the original owner sought to recover the painting before her death in 1969. A benefactor bought it from the Austrian government, which had seized it from a Nazi party member, and...
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Sabo v. Shamrock Commc'ns, Inc.
Plaintiff suffered injuries in an automobile accident caused by an intoxicated driver. The intoxicated driver had just left the defendant restaurant where he had consumed a large number of alcoholic...
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Warren v. State
Defendant was indicted for rape and aggravated sodomy of his wife. The defendant's motions for general demurrer and to dismiss were denied, and the defendant sought and was granted an immediate...
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Gilreath v. GE
Appellant tax collector challenged the trial court's judgment in favor of consolidated appellee taxpayers, which determined that appellees' computer software was taxable as intangible personal property...
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J.C.J. v. Heart of Adoptions, Inc.
The appellee adoption agency petitioned the circuit court for the termination of the appellant father's parental rights to a minor child. The trial court terminated the father's parental rights on the...
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Mo. ex rel. Sw. Bell Tel. Co. v. Pub. Serv. Com.
Appellant, a telephone company, made a presentation to appellee, the Missouri Public Service Commission, so that appellee could set the appropriate rates for telephone service. Appellant's evidence...
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Wooten v. Superior Court
The club had rooms where customers could watch women engage in sexual acts with each other. Undercover officers visited five times and paid for private shows. The managers claimed there was no evidence...
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Russo v. Plant City Moose Lodge No. 1668
The appellant, representing her deceased husband's estate, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternal organization (appellee). She claimed that the appellee served alcohol to a habitual...
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Roberts v. Louisiana
The defendant was convicted in the state court of murder and sentenced to death, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana affirmed the conviction and the sentence. The Court granted certiorari to consider...
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Lewis v. Equitable Life Assurance Soc'y
The employees contended that they were discharged in breach of their employment contracts, as determined by an employee handbook, and that they were defamed because the employer knew that they would...
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State v. Courchesne
The defendant was found guilty of murdering two persons in the course of a single transaction upon the murder of a pregnant woman, whose in utero fetus was delivered and lived for 42 days before dying....
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People v. Zabelle
The defendant appealed from a judgment that denied the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a warrantless search pursuant to Cal. Penal Code § 1538.5 and sentenced him to...
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J.D. v. Colonial Williamsburg Found.
J.D. followed a strict gluten-free diet. On a school field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, he attempted to bring a homemade gluten-free meal into a restaurant, but the restaurant refused and offered to...
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Buying Tips For Legal Contract Lifecycle Management Software
Legal operations professionals keep tabs on software needs in the law department, often running audits to determine which software is obsolete and which needs to be purchased. In this article, we look...
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