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Irene J. Hojnacki v. Donna Klien-Acosta, et al.
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Dr. Hojnacki was employed by Addu
Healthcare, a private company under
contract with the Illinois Department of
Corrections ("DOC") to supply health care
services to inmates at DOC prisons. She
worked as medical director at the Dwight
Correctional Center for Women ("Dwight").
In March 1995, Doretta O'Brien, the
Administrator of Dwight's Healthcare Unit
("HCU"), filed an Incident Report wit... More... $0 (03-28-2002 - IL)
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Diane Blair v. Scott Specialty Gases, et al.
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Diane Blair brought suit in the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Scott
Specialty Gases ("Scott"), her former employer, alleging
sexual harassment and discrimination in violation of Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. S 2000e et seq.
(2001), the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA), 43
Pa. Cons. Stat. S 951 et seq. (2001), the E... More... $0 (03-13-2002 - PA)
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Richard Beeching and National Education Assoc. v. Carol Levee
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Carol Levee ("Levee"), the principal of Eggleston Elementary School in South Bend, Indiana, sued Richard Beeching, the UNISERV Director, See footnote and the National Education Association–South Bend ("Beeching") for defamation and tortious interference with a contractual relationship. After a jury trial, the trial court granted Levee's motion for mistrial because it determined that the jury had r... More... $850 (02-28-2002 - IN)
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Fodor v. Leeman
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Plaintiff appeals from a judgment that dismissed his defamation claim against defendants Wayne Leeman and Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. The claim is based on an editorial advertisement that Leeman wrote and Ottaway published in the Medford Mail Tribune that criticized an article that plaintiff had written. We affirm.
Plaintiff is an independent consultant, author, and lecturer. He has published ... More... $0 (02-27-2002 - OR)
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Fodor v. Leeman
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Plaintiff appeals from a judgment that dismissed his defamation claim against defendants Wayne Leeman and Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. The claim is based on an editorial advertisement that Leeman wrote and Ottaway published in the Medford Mail Tribune that criticized an article that plaintiff had written. We affirm.
Plaintiff is an independent consultant, author, and lecturer. He has published ... More... $0 (02-27-2002 - OR)
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Eleanor Kowalczyk v. Blackstone, Massachusetts
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Age discrimination and defamation claims by 88-year-old part-time van driver fired by Blackstone, Massachusetts in 1996. Plaintiff's job was to drive senior citizens and the handicapped. Defendant claimed that she was dismissed for safety reasons and rudeness.... More... $210893 (02-26-2002 - MA)
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COX ENTERPRISES, INC. et al. v. NIX
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This appeal arises from a suit for defamation, invasion of privacy, and
intentional infliction of emotional distress filed by attorney Franklin R. Nix
against Cox Enterprises, doing business as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; an
editor; and a number of unnamed individuals (hereinafter, collectively, “Cox”).
The suit was based on two related articles published in the Journal-Const... More... $0 (02-25-2002 - GA)
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Ghorbanni v. North Dakota Council on the Arts
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[1] Daphne Ghorbanni appealed from a summary judgment dismissing her claims for retaliatory discharge and defamation against the North Dakota Council on the Arts and the State of North Dakota. We conclude Ghorbanni failed to properly give notice of her claims as required by statute, and we affirm.
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[2] The North Dakota Council on the Arts ("the Council") is a statutorily created bod... More... $0 (02-20-2002 - ND)
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Thomas Willan v. Columbia County
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Willan sued
county law-enforcement officers and
authorities under 42 U.S.C. sec.
1983,claiming that they had violated his
constitutional rights by obtaining and
disseminating information about his
criminal history. He appeals from the
grant of summary judgment to the
defendants.
Willan was locked in a bitter campaign
in 1999 for the mayoralty of the town of
Lodi, Wisconsin. His o... More... $0 (02-19-2002 - WI)
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Information Systems and Networks Corporation v. The City of Atlanta
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In this contract dispute, we address the difference between an acceptance and a counteroffer under Georgia law. The district court granted summary judgment to the City of Atlanta ("the City"), holding that the City never accepted the contract terms offered by Information Systems and Networks Corporation ("ISN"). According to the district court, the document which ISN construed as an acceptance was... More... $0 (02-06-2002 - GA)
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David Goetzke v. Ferro Corporation and Crawford & Company
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Ferro Corporation
terminated David Goetzke in
August 1997 on the ground that he had
defrauded it by exaggerating the extent
of a work-related injury. In response to
his termination, Mr. Goetzke filed this
multi-count action in state court against
Ferro and Crawford & Company, a third-party administrator
retained through Ferro's insurance
carrier to administer worker's
compensation claims... More... $0 (02-06-2002 - IN)
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Terri Welles, et al.
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), appeals the district court's
grant of summary judgment as to its claims of trademark
infringement, unfair competition, and breach of contract
against Terri Welles; Terri Welles, Inc.; Pippi, Inc.; and
Welles' current and former "webmasters," Ste... More... $0 (02-01-2002 - CA)
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Brown v. Six Flags Magic Mountain
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Civil rights, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims by African-American plaintiff who claimed by the defendant's employees spoke racial epithets directed toward him which were recorded in a video tape made of him while riding the Dive Devil at defandant's amusement park in Valencia, California in August, 1999.
Defendant denied that its employees made the offensive ... More... $0 (02-01-2002 - CA)
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Christopher M. Edwards v. Paddock Publications, Inc., et al.
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Plaintiff, Christopher M. Edwards, filed an action against defendants, Paddock Publications, Inc., the publisher of the Daily Herald, and several of its reporters and editors, alleging defamation and false light arising from certain newspaper articles that misidentified plaintiff as having been arrested in conjunction with a drug "bust" in the northwest suburbs. Defendants' theory of the case was ... More... $0 (01-24-2002 - IL)
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James R. Singleton v. United States
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Plaintiff-Appellant James R. Singleton, a Captain in the Ohio Air National Guard, appeals from the decision of the district court granting Defendant-Appellee United States' motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In 1999, Singleton filed a complaint in Ohio state court against Thomas A. Hitzeman, a Major in the Ohio Air National Gu... More... $0 (01-22-2002 - OH)
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The Procter & Gamble Company, et al. v. Amway Corporation, et al.
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P&G manufactures and distributes numerous household products. Since the late 1970's and early 1980's, rumors of links to Satanism have circulated throughout the United States. A common version alleges that P&G's president admitted to worshiping Satan on a television talk show and that a portion of P&G's profits goes to the church of Satan. The rumor has circulated in the form of voicemail messages... More... $0 (01-18-2002 - TX)
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Mark K. Patton, M.D. v. Lynn Jacob Cox
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In this diversity action, we must decide whether a witness
in a state quasi-judicial proceeding is immune from a breach
of contract action arising out of his testimony.
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Dr. Mark K. Patton practices medicine in Arizona. He and
his former wife, Shellie Trembath, divorced in 1994 and are
embroiled in a bitter and protracted child-custody battle,
which is taking place in a Utah state c... More... $0 (01-07-2002 - AZ)
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Sports Unlimited, Inc. v. Lankford Enterprises, Inc.
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Sports Unlimited, Inc. brought suit against Lankford Enterprises, Inc., presenting several theories for relief, all based on allegations that Defendant had caused Plaintiff to lose business and had injured its business reputation.(1) Jurisdiction in the district court was claimed under both 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 & 1332; Plaintiff also invoked the court's supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 136... More... $0 (01-04-2002 - KS)
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Norma Livsey v. Salt Lake County
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Norma Livsey, Kipp Livsey, and Kelly Livsey brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Salt Lake County and Jim Potter, a County police officer. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs' constitutional rights were infringed by a statement by Potter published in a local newspaper about the sexual behavior of a deceased member of the plaintiffs' family and by the County's failure to grant t... More... $0 (12-26-2001 - UT)
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Robert Tayar v. Palmer Communications, Inc.,
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This case was a defamation action. Robert Tayar was the owner of Molly Murphy's restaurant in Oklahoma City. Two women separately won from a local radio station complimentary gift certificates valued at $25.00 redeemable at Molly Murphy's restaurant. The restaurant refused to permit the women to use both certificates on the same evening. The women called Channel 4's action line with their compla... More... $700000 (12-17-2001 - OK)
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Glenn K. Jackson, Inc. v. Richard Roe, Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James
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Glenn K. Jackson, Inc., d.b.a. Jackson & Donahue, and
Glenn K. Jackson individually (collectively "J&D") appeal
the district court's granting of summary judgment in favor of
Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James ("Stuart Maue") in J&D's
diversity action seeking relief under California law. The
action arises out of an audit conducted by Stuart Maue of
J&D's billing statements sent to Golden Eagle In... More... $0 (12-11-2001 - CA)
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Lockwood International, B.V. v. North River Insurance Company and Fidelity and Guaranty Insurance Company
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This diversity
suit, based on Wisconsin law, presents a
novel but potentially quite important
issue of insurance law: whether a
liability insurer, asked to defend (or
pay the defense costs in) a suit against
its insured that contains some claims
that are covered by the insurance policy
and others that are not, can limit its
responsibility to defend by paying the
plaintiff in the liabilit... More... $0 (12-06-2001 - WI)
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Combs & Associates, Inc. v. Curtis Kennedy, et al.
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Plaintiff initiated this action against defendants on 26 January 1999. In its amended complaint, plaintiff presents claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, two counts of tortious interference with a contract, defamation, breach of employee duty of loyalty, unfair and deceptive trade practices, civil conspiracy and punitive damages. Following discovery, plaintiff moved for summary judgment ag... More... $0 (12-04-2001 - NC)
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Golden Eagle Insurance Corp. v. Rocky Cola Cafe, Inc., et al.
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Krista Bollman sued Rocky Cola Café, Wally Curry, a partner in the business, and
shift managers Christopher Vitolo and Angela Henderson. Her complaint asserted causes
of action for sexual harassment, retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, defamation, wrongful termination and negligent hiring
and supervision.
The complaint alleged that a s... More... $0 (12-04-2001 - CA)
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Mark A. Williams Sr. v. Jackson County, Missouri
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Mark A. Williams, Sr., appeals from the district court’s dismissal with
prejudice of his Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claims, and the dismissal without
prejudice of his defamation claim. We reverse in part and affirm in part.
On October 12, 1999, Mr. Williams was terminated from his position as a
corrections officer for the Jackson County Department of Corrections, allegedly for
fa... More... $0 (12-04-2001 - MO)
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