Two conservation groups, Friends
of Merrymeeting Bay and Environment Maine (collectively,
"Plaintiffs"), brought two citizen enforcement suits containing
claims under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA"), 16 U.S.C.
§§ 1531–1544, and the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), 33 U.S.C.
§§ 1251–1387, against Hydro Kennebec, LLC, Brookfield Power US
Asset Management, LLC, Merimil Limi

This products liability action against pharmaceutical companies presents several issues involving the interplay between state tort law and federal prescription drug regulation. This case is one of many litigated in state and federal courts nationwide alleging severe side effects from prolonged use of metoclopramide, sold under the brand name Reglan and as a competing generic formulation. The plain

[¶1] Jamie T. Dubbelde challenges the administrative ninety day suspension of his
driver’s license and his one year disqualification from driving a commercial vehicle. The
focus of his appeal is the delay that occurred between his arrest for driving under the
influence of alcohol in April 2011 and the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s
(WYDOT) August 2012 notification of t

PITTSBURGH, PA - A Washington County man pled guilty to violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Michael Howard, 29, of Venetia, Pa., was convicted of possessing firearms while he was using and/or addicted to a controlled substance. He was also convicted of providing false information on multiple occasions to a federal firearms licensee abo

Appellant Richard Brumfield appeals the trial court’s order granting the motion for summary judgment and plea to the jurisdiction of Appellee Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). We will affirm.

In late June and early July 2010, TxDOT performed a “mill and overlay” to repair cracks in the northbound service road near the entrance ramp to SH 360.

1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4

Twylla Robinson appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Connie Mueller, as personal representative of the Estate of Hazel Marquardt. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Marquardt (the landlord) owned a two-story home and rented the second level as an apartment to a tenant. The apartment’s bedroom contained acce

This case arises from a vehicle accident in which a motorist struck and killed a tow-truck driver who was working to upright a Budget Rental moving truck. The truck rolled over and was in the median of Interstate Highway 20 at the time of the accident.

Appellees Teresa Renee Abila Lopez, individually and as next friend of Gabriella Jolie Abila Lopez, a minor child; Rachel Lopez, individuall

The appellant/plaintiff, Faygie Denniser, appeals the final summary judgment entered in favor of Columbia Hospital Corporation of South Broward (Columbia) after a slip and fall on a wet floor. The appellant raises two issues on appeal. First, she alleges that the trial court erred in finding her status as an uninvited licensee or trespasser was uncontested. Second, she argues that there was a genu

Both parties have filed appeals, in which Appellant–Cross-Appellee Digital Ally mainly challenges the validity and enforceability of one of the contracts, while Appellee–Cross- Appellant Z3 Technology challenges certain elements of the damages award.

I. Background

The contracts at issue in this case related to Z3’s design and manufacturing of circuit board modules for use in Di

In this personal injury case, the City of Houston appealed the trial court’s denial of its plea to the jurisdiction based on governmental immunity. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a)(8) (West Supp. 2013). On original submission, we affirmed the trial court’s order on the basis that appellee Edmund

2

L. Cogburn had sufficiently pleaded a special defect. The City has

A broker represented both the buyer and the seller in a real property transaction through two different salespersons. The buyer brought several claims against the broker and the salesperson who listed the property for sale, including breach of fiduciary duty. The trial court granted a nonsuit on the claim for breach of fiduciary duty against the salesperson on the ground that the salesperson who l

This case arises out of one of the largest residential arsons in Maryland history. See Michael E. Ruane & Joshua Partlow, No Motive Found in Charles Arsons; Eco-Terrorism, Racism Considered, Wash. Post, Dec. 8, 2004, at B1. Appellants (Homebuyers) contracted to purchase homes that were later damaged or destroyed due to the arsons. Following the arsons, the Homebuyers brought suit against a company

In this defamation case, Christopher Comins [“Comins”], appeals a trial court order entering partial final judgment in favor of Appellee/Cross-Appellant, Matthew VanVoorhis [“VanVoorhis”], for Comins’s failure to comply with the presuit notice

2

requirement of section 770.01, Florida Statutes (2008). Comins argues that the trial court erred because VanVoorhis is not a “me

COMES NOW the Plaintiff Michael Simmons as Next of Kin to Phyllis Simmons, Deceased, and for his causes of action against Defendants Oak Hills Care Center, L.L,C., dlb/a Oak Hills Living Center, an Oklahoma limited liability company; OH Holdings, L.L.C., an Oklahoma limited liability company and John H. Stout, an individual, alleges and states as follows:

Common Allegations

1. Plaint

¶1 Defendant/Appellant State of Oklahoma ex rel. Department of Public Safety (DPS) appeals the trial court's Order filed on April 10, 2013, denying its "motion to reconsider/vacate" the trial court's prior order. The trial court's prior order reversed DPS's implied consent revocation order revoking Plaintiff/Appellee Travis W. Andrews' (Andrews) driver's license for 180 days. Based on our review

IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO THE OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS - CIVIL (SECOND).

ORDER ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS - CIVIL (SECOND)

¶1 The Court has reviewed the recommendations of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Committee for Uniform Civil Jury Instructions that proposed Instructions should be adopted. The Court finds that the revisions should be adopt

Eugene Eldridge and Raymond Perry appeal the trial court’s judgment dismissing their premises-liability suit against Brazoria County. In four issues, Eldridge and Perry assert that the trial court erred by granting the county’s plea to

2

the jurisdiction and complain that the trial court should have granted their motion to compel discovery related to jurisdictional issues.

In this personal injury lawsuit, appellant Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC (“Oncor”) appeals a judgment rendered on a jury verdict against it and in favor of appellee Marco Murillo, an employee of Leo Gomez d/b/a AAA

2

Demolishing (“AAA”). Murillo sustained serious personal injuries from electrocution while he worked for AAA at a demolition site in Dallas. The jury f

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing an AK-47 from a pawn shop.

Henry Lee Williams, 55, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Williams was sentenced as an armed career criminal due to his p

Rick Reese owned a federally licensed firearms store in southern New Mexico and ran it with his wife, Terri, and two sons, Ryin and Remington. In August 2012, a jury convicted Rick, Terri, and Ryin under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 924(a)(1)(A) for aiding and abetting straw purchases of firearms from the store. Unbeknownst to them, however, at the time of trial the FBI was investigating one of the govern

We address whether copyright registration of a collective work registered the component works within it.

Facts

This case was dismissed for failure to state a claim, so we assume for purposes of analysis that the facts were as pleaded in the complaint.

Alaska Stock, a stock photography agency, registered large numbers of photographs at a time, listing only some of the authors a

James Kirby says the jury’s award against him is too much. True, he helped start and served as a director of StorageCraft, a computer software company. True, after a falling out with his colleagues he stole the computer source code on which the company’s products depend. True, he shared the source code with NetJapan, a rival company that quickly produced a competing software product much like

¶1 Plaintiff/Appellant Erin Bates (Plaintiff) seeks review of the trial court's order granting the motion to dismiss of Defendants/Appellees P.C. Cast, a/k/a Phyllis Cast, an individual, Kristin Cast, an individual, and St. Martin's Press, a Foreign Limited Liability Company (individually, by name, or, collectively, Defendants) on Plaintiff's claims to actual and punitive damages for defamation,

Beginning in 1971 this court decided three cases that together reversed decades of previous law and recognized, for the first time, that sellers or furnishers of alcoholic beverages could be liable for injuries proximately caused by those who imbibed. (Vesely v. Sager (1971) 5 Cal.3d 153; Bernhard v. Harrah’s Club (1976) 16 Cal.3d 313; Coulter v. Superior Court (1978) 21 Cal.3d 144.) In 1978, th

In Westlake Community Hosp. v. Superior Court (1976) 17 Cal.3d 465 (Westlake), we held that, before a physician may bring a common law tort action directed against a hospital’s quasi-judicial decision to terminate the physician’s staff privileges, he or she must first exhaust all internal hospital procedures to reverse the decision, and, if this fails, must prevail in court in a mandamus proce