Plaintiff Robert Christie retained an attorney, Robert Jeney, to pursue three claims on his behalf. Christie contends that Jeney negligently allowed the statute of limitations to run on the state-court defamatio... More...   $0 (05-15-2001 - NJ)

Plaintiff William P. Isham brought this action asserting a variety of claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law relating to his employment at the University of New Mexico. The district court dismissed his federal claims under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), and it declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over his state law claims. Plaintiff appeals. We review the district court's decision de nov... More...   $0 (05-15-2001 - NM)

Thomas Joseph Kennedy and his wife Diane Michelle Kennedy, appeal from the judgment entered by the district court on September 29, 1999, affirming the order entered by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky, granting summary judgment to Creditors-Appellees, Phillip B. Mustaine and his wife Phyllis J. Mustaine - Plaintiffs in the underlying adversary proceeding and ... More...   $0 (05-10-2001 - KY)

1 Plaintiff, Janet Thornton, appeals the district court's summary judgment in favor of Defendants, Holdenville General Hospital (Hospital), Melissa McClellan, Christy Marsh, and Joseph Mitchell.1 The issue on appeal in this action for defamation and related theories of recovery is whether the district court erred in finding that there was no issue of material fact such that judgment was proper as ... More...   $0 (05-08-2001 - OK)

Plaintiff was the United States Representative for Michigan's 15th Congressional District, located in Detroit. In 1996, plaintiff was seeking reelection to a fourth term, and she faced opposition in the August ... More...   $0 (05-07-2001 - MI)

1 Plaintiff/Appellant Alice B. Davis (Plaintiff) seeks review of the trial court's order granting the motion for summary judgment of the Defendants/Appellees Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University and the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, Langston University, the individual regents by name, and Ernest L. Holloway, president of Langston, (collectively Defendants or by name) in Plaintiff... More...   $0 (04-27-2001 - OK)

Wrongful termination - Plaintiff claimed that she was wrongfully terminated from her employment as a charge nurse in the intensive care unit at the Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in July, 1998. Her complaint alleged claims for defamation, intentional interference with contract, intentional interference with prospective advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of the cov... More...   $0 (04-11-2001 - WY)

Iowa June 1, 2000). For reversal, the District argues that (1) the dist... More...   $250000 (04-07-2001 - IA)

Ernest Albiero brought this action against the City of Kankakee, Mayor Donald Green, and other unknown agents of the City (collectively "the City"). He alleged that his right to equal protection of the laws had been violated when the City placed a "slum lord" sign on his property. The district court granted summary judgment for the City. For the reasons set forth in the following opinion, ... More...   $0 (04-05-2001 - IL)

Plaintiffs protested the development application made by UEC and Lauletta to construct office condominiums in Washington Township, Gloucester County. Displeased with these protests, UEC and Lauletta filed an action against plaintiffs sounding in defamation, interference with business advantage, and malicious use of process (the Lauletta complaint). Baron represented UEC and Lauletta in that action... More...   $0 (03-30-2001 - NJ)

Plaintiffs were arrested 6 November 1998 and each charged with misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of two minors. The warrants alleged that plaintiffs “knowingly” did “cause, encourage and aid” the named juveniles “to commit an act, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, and engage in a sex act, whereby that juvenile could be adjudicated delinquent.&#... More...   $0 (03-20-2001 - NC)

Defamation claim by former Florida Today reporter who claimed that she was accused of being a criminal and was fired by the newspaper after she and another report entered the apartment of an accused murder and took a list of telephone numbers. ... More...   $410500 (03-16-2001 - FL)

Plaintiff/Meadows filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., two of its personnel, Wal-Mart’s security company and a security guard for assault and battery, defamation and malicious prosecution. Plaintiff prevailed upon the assault and battery and defamation claims, while Wal-Mart prevailed upon the malicious prosecution claim. In a post-trial motion, Plaintiff sought attorney fees, cont... More...   $0 (03-13-2001 - OK)

DEFAMATION—QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE IN COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN FRANCHISOR/FRANCHISEE—The common law provides a qualified privilege to a franchisee who gives information about a former employee to his franchisor, at the franchisor’s request, where the former employee has applied for his or her franchise. This type of relationship fits into the common law qualified privilege to publish ... More...   $0 (02-23-2001 - MD)

P&G, a manufacturer and distributor of numerous household products, has been plagued by rumors of links to Satanism since the late 1970's or early 1980's. The most common variant of the rumo... More...   $0 (02-14-2001 - TX)

After 27 years as an employee of New York Life Insurance Company ("New York Life"), Phyllis Meloff lost her job for billing seven months of personal commuting expenses to the company's American Express card and failing to reimburse the company. Her supervisor sent an electronic message ("e-mail"), eventually forwarded to 16 employees, stating Meloff was fired for defrauding the company. She sued, ... More...   $0 (02-14-2001 - NY)

Due Process, Breach of Contract, Negligence, Defamation and Misrepresentation Claims ... More...   $0 (02-05-2001 - OK)

Fair Communicatio... More...   $1360000 (02-02-2001 - CA)

Defamation - Plaintiff claimed that she was defamed by an article published in Defendant's newspaper about a Salvation Army summer lunch program that provided free meals to children. The article included a photograph of Plaintiff's daughter on the front page of the paper and quoted Salvation Army workers who said that the children might not eat lunch if not for the free lunch program.... More...   $0 (01-26-2001 - OH)

In May 1998, Keeler brought suit against Putnam in Massachusetts state court.(1) The complaint set forth six claims under Massachusetts law: intentional age discrimination (count I) and disparate-impact age discrimination (count II), Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4 (1998); retaliation following his complaint (count III), id. at §§ 4, 4(4); failure to investigate and remedy discrimination (count IV);... More...   $0 (01-17-2001 - MA)

Robert Konop ("Konop") appeals: (1) the district court's grant of summary judgment against Konop on his claim that Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. ("Hawaiian") violated the Wiretap Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520, and the Stored Communica-tions Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2710, by viewing Konop's secure website under false pretenses; (2) the district court's grant of summary judgment against Konop on his cla... More...   $0 (01-08-2001 - CA)

Appellant Paul Weyrich appeals from an order of the District Court dismissing his suit for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and civil conspiracy to defame. Weyrich's complaint asserts that he was defamed by an article, "Robespierre of the Right--What I Ate at the Revolution," authored by David Grann and published by The New Republic on October 27, 1997. The article is flo... More...   $0 (01-05-2001 - DC)

Plaintiff/Appellant Eloy Garley brought this action against Sandia Corporation (Sandia) in New Mexico State District Court on August 17, 1998 alleging six state law causes of action arising out of his employment at Sandia. Garley alleged: (1) breach of implied contract; (2) breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing; (3) retaliation; (4) civil conspiracy; (5) defamation; and (6) intentional... More...   $0 (01-03-2001 - NM)

The trial court sustained a demurrer to the complaint of the Reverend John P. Conley (appellant) without leave to amend. Appellant contends that the trial court erred in finding that the complaint presented an ecclesiastical dispute not within the jurisdiction of civil authority. We conclude that judicial review of appellant’s causes of action is permissible in light of the strong compellin... More...   $0 (12-29-2000 - CA)

According to the plaintiff, he resigned from his job at Emory in July 1998 to move to Richmond and enter private practice. On Feb. 7, 1999, the following message appeared on a Yahoo message board devoted... More...   $675000 (12-21-2000 - VA)