Julie Fairchild – asserting that the Liberty Independent School District Fairchild also has three children who during the relevant time period attended 1 District schools. The District maintains that it fired Fairchild for creating a classroom environment 2 not conducive to learning.

The District adopted DGBA (Local) and BEC (Legal) in an effort to comply with the 3 Texas Open Meetings ... More...   $0 (02-23-2010 - )

Petitioner seeks the return of her daughter to Panama under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The father opposes return; he claims that the mother is neglectful and very poor, that the child has grown used to living in America and that the child’s medical needs cannot be addressed in Panama.

Richard Joyce built a sailboat and sailed it to Panama... More...   $0 (02-22-2010 - CA)

This case presents a choice-of-law issue arising in a lawsuit filed by plaintiff Terry McCann (plaintiff) to recover damages for an illness, mesothelioma, allegedly caused by his exposure to asbestos. Although the complaint seeks recovery from numerous defendants, the issue before us relates solely to the potential liability of a single defendant, Foster Wheeler LLC (Foster Wheeler), a company tha... More...   $0 (02-20-2010 - CA)

Today, all the world is a market. In our contemporary international economy, trade knows few boundaries, and it is now commonplace that dangerous products will find their way, through purposeful marketing, to our nation's shores and into our State. The question before us is whether the jurisdictional law of this State will reflect this new reality.

In this case, the foreign manufacturer o... More...   $0 (02-09-2010 - NJ)

The respondents, Local Government Center, Inc. (LGC) and its subsidiaries, appeal an order of the Superior Court (Mangones, J.) granting summary judgment in favor of the petitioner, Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire (Professional Firefighters), and ruling that: (1) two of LGC’s subsidiaries are subject to the Right-to-Know Law, RSA ch. 91-A (2001 & Supp. 2009); (2) certain salary inform... More...   $0 (02-04-2010 - NY)

Geoff Edgers, Dismantled, The Boston Globe, Oct. 21, 2007, at 1N. Artist Christoph Büchel conceived of an ambitious, football-field-sized art installation entitled "Training Ground for Democracy," which was to be exhibited at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ("MASS MoCA," or "the Museum"). Unfortunately, the parties never memorialized the terms of their relationship or their understan... More...   $0 (01-28-2010 - MA)

Pro se appellant Emmanuel Lazaridis filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware raising various constitutional and statutory claims relating to child custody proceedings and the registration of foreign custody orders in the state of Delaware against his ex-wife, her attorneys, and the Delaware Attorney General. Lazaridis now appeals from the District Court’... More...   $0 (01-07-2010 - DE)

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the defendants, the board of education of the city of New Haven (city) and certain public school officials in the city,1 are immune from liability for injuries that the plaintiff, Jamell Woods Cotto, sustained when he slipped on a wet bathroom floor at the Roberto Clemente School (school), one of the city’s public schools, while working as a director of... More...   $0 (12-15-2009 - CT)

In 2005 Robert Senske was fired from his position as a high-ranking sales manager with Sybase, Incorporated, a software and systems-management company with an office in Chicago. Sybase says it fired Senske because a client complained about his performance and because he was dilatory in completing required paperwork, was persistently tardy for meetings, and was not a team player. Senske says he was... More...   $0 (12-03-2009 - IL)

Julie Stephens Long’s employment with the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (“TRS”) came to an end on February 3, 2006.

While TRS maintains that it fired her for poor performance, Long believes that she was fired in retaliation for taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). The district court granted summary judgment in favor of TRS, which L... More...   $0 (10-23-2009 - IL)

The plaintiff, a bariatric surgeon who lives and practices in New Jersey, brought this diversity suit in the federal district court in Chicago. He claims to have been defamed by the defendant, another bariatric surgeon, who practices in New York. The district judge dismissed the suit without prejudice, on the ground that venue in Chicago was improper, and the plaintiff appeals. The defendant cross... More...   $0 (10-23-2009 - )

This matter comes on before this Court on an appeal by
appellant Century Indemnity Company (“Century”) from two
orders of the District Court, one entered May 18, 2006,
granting a motion of appellee Certain Underwriters at
Lloyd’s, London (“Lloyd’s”) to compel arbitration of a
disputed claim based on a set of reinsurance-of-reinsurance
agreements, and one entered... More...   $0 (10-23-2009 - )

This action involves a dispute over the parties‟ respective rights upon termination of a joint venture. Appellants Jan Vreeken (Vreeken); Gergbroeders Meijer Belegging, B.V., a Netherlands corporation (Gergbroeders); Lockwood Engineering, B.V., a Netherlands corporation (Lockwood); and Third-Party Appellants Lockwood Packaging Corporation (LP) and Lockwood Packaging Corporation Idaho (LPI) file ... More...   $0 (10-21-2009 - ID)

¶1 Defendant, Volkswagen of America. Inc. (VW), appeals the trial court's certification of a class action. The question to be decided is whether the trial court abused its discretion in granting class action status. We hold that it did not and affirm.

FACTS

¶2 Plaintiffs, Rajina Hess and Kelly Parsons, each own a Jetta automobile manufactured and/or sold by VW. Each vehicle was pur... More...   $0 (10-16-2009 - OK)

In this action seeking recovery for an intentional tort falling outside the exclusive remedy provision of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act (WDCA), MCL 418.131(1), defendant Mavrick Metal Stamping, Inc., appeals by leave granted the circuit court’s order denying its motion for summary disposition. We affirm.

I. Facts and Proceedings

Mavrick manufactures automotive parts, a... More...   $0 (10-13-2009 - MI)

This consolidated appeal arises from several wrongful death actions brought by the survivors of passengers killed in the crash of a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft, operating as West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, in the mountains of Venezuela. All of the appellants/cross-appellees, plaintiffs in the proceedings below (“Plaintiffs”), are natural persons and residents of Martinique, a Departmen... More...   $0 (10-08-2009 - )

This appeal is from a judgment entered by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County against Ahmed M. Ali, appellant, and in favor of CIT Technology Financing Services, Inc., appellee, in the amount of $190,725.85 in damages and $21,977.95 in prejudgment interest. Appellant contends that the trial court should have dismissed the suit because it was barred by the applicable statute of limitatio... More...   $0 (10-05-2009 - MD)

In these consolidated cases, the Centre County Court of Common Pleas dismissed charges filed by the Commonwealth for violations of the Trademark Counterfeiting Statute, 18 Pa.C.S. § 4119, based on the trial court’s prior decision striking the statute as unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. Accordingly, the Commonwealth has filed direct appeals to this Court, which has exclusive jurisdiction ... More...   $0 (10-05-2009 - PA)

Romeo Balen, individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, appeals the district court’s order granting Holland America Line Inc.’s (“HAL”) motion to compel arbitration. Balen contends that his claims cannot be resolved through arbitration, because (1) United States law does not permit the arbitration of claims brought under the Seamen’s Wage Act, 46 U.S.C. § 10313 (“Wage Act... More...   $0 (10-02-2009 - WA)

This case arises from a proof of claim filed by J.C. Penney Life Insurance Company (“Penney”) against the receivership for Transit Casualty Company (“Transit”) pursuant to a “Reinsurance Agreement.” The Cole County Circuit Court entered a judgment finding that the agreement between Penney‟s predecessor in interest, Beneficial Fire & Casualty Company (BF&C), and Transit is, in fact, a... More...   $0 (09-29-2009 - MO)

Defendant Orange Park Community Association (OPCA)1 maintains and exercises control over a series of recreational trails on portions of the association “common area” (Civ. Code, § 1351, subd. (b)). The trails border Broadmoor Park homes and Saddlehill development, OPCA residential developments in Orange Park Acres. The OPCA trails connect to a larger system of trails maintained by other assoc... More...   $0 (09-22-2009 - CA)

Art Attacks Ink, LLC (“Art Attacks”) brought suit against MGA Entertainment Inc. (“MGA”), alleging copyright, trademark, and trade dress infringement. A jury found for MGA on the trademark claim, but could not reach a verdict on the remaining claims. MGA then moved for judgment as a matter of law under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b). The district court granted the motion and Art Att... More...   $0 (09-18-2009 - CA)

Petitioner Evgeniya Kartasheva, a native of the Soviet Union and citizen of Uzbekistan, seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals ("Board") order denying her asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). The Board adopted and affirmed the decision of an Immigration Judge ("IJ") who found that Kartasheva was not credible and that she had failed to... More...   $0 (09-14-2009 - MA)

In this products liability action, Sico America, Inc.[1] appeals a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of James R. Willis, individually and as next friend of John Willis. In two issues, Sico challenges (1) the district court=s decision to apply Minnesota law instead of the Texas statute of repose; and (2) the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury=s negligence finding. We ... More...   $0 (09-10-2009 - TX)

Phronie Toliver appeals from the judgment dismissing her complaint against Potawatomi Bingo & Casino and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (collectively referred to as Potawatomi unless otherwise specified). Judgment was entered after Potawatomi successfully moved for a directed verdict at the close of Toliver’s case. On appeal, Toliver argues that the trial court erred in three respe... More...   $0 (09-09-2009 - WI)