Owen Milne, age 23, sued Volkswagen AG on a products liability theory claiming that the roof of the 1999 Jetta was defectively designed and defective because it was not strong enough to prevent the collapse of the roof in a rollover accident. Mr. Milne was a passenger in a Jetta driving by Rebecca Beisswenger which skidded of a road and hit an embacnkment and rolled over twice on Christmas Eve in... More...   $0 (02-11-2009 - VT)

In this insurance coverage suit, appellant Mid-Continent Casualty Co. (“Mid-Continent”) sued appellees JHP Development, Inc. (“JHP”) and TRC Condominiums, Ltd. (“TRC”), seeking a declaratory judgment that it had no duty to defend or indemnify JHP or pay any damages awarded to TRC in a state court suit between those two parties stemming from JHP’s defective construction of a five-unit... More...   $0 (01-28-2009 - TX)

Plaintiff, Aircraft Logistics, Inc., appeals a final summary judgment in its negligence action against H.E. Sutton Forwarding Company, LLC. Finding no error in the trial court’s conclusion that H.E. Sutton owed Aircraft no duty as a matter of law, we affirm the summary judgment.

Aircraft owned a single engine Piper Saratoga plane based at Miami Executive Airport in Opa-Locka, Florida.1 H.... More...   $0 (01-23-2009 - FL)

Appellant Mark Hackett brought suit against appellees Littlepage & Booth, Littlepage & Associates, P.C., and Michles & Booth, P.A., (1) alleging legal malpractice and deceptive trade practices stemming from the Law Firms' representation of Hackett, specifically the Law Firms' failure to file suit against two of Hackett's treating physicians for medical malpractice. In four issues, Hackett challen... More...   $0 (01-16-2009 - TX)

This appeal involves the interaction of a local zoning ordinance establishing an airport safety overlay zone and an avigation easement1 sought by the Virginia Highlands Airport Authority2 (Airport Authority) to remove obstructions on the property of Singleton Auto Parts, Incorporated (Singleton), which were preserved pursuant to a grandfather clause in the ordinance. We are presented with the nove... More...   $0 (01-16-2009 - VA)

Vehicle IP (“VIP”) holds the rights to U.S. Patent No. 6,535,743 (the “’743 patent”), which covers various aspects of a mobile navigation system. VIP sued General Motors, OnStar, Cellco, and Networks in Motion (collectively, “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin for infringing the ’743 patent. The district court granted Defendants"... More...   $0 (01-08-2009 - WI)

Appellant, David Block, appeals from a judgment rendered in favor of Appellee, Kimberly Mora, following a jury trial of his personal injury cause of action arising out of a collision between the vehicle being driven by Mora and Block’s pickup truck. Block presents five points of error, restated in three issues: (1) Was the evidence legally and factually sufficient to support the jury’s verdict... More...   $0 (01-07-2009 - TX)

Appellant, David Block, appeals from a judgment rendered in favor of Appellee, Kimberly Mora, following a jury trial of his personal injury cause of action arising out of a collision between the vehicle being driven by Mora and Block’s pickup truck. Block presents five points of error, restated in three issues: (1) Was the evidence legally and factually sufficient to support the jury’s verdict... More...   $0 (01-07-2009 - TX)

Tradewind Airlines, Inc. (defendant) terminated John R. McDonnell (plaintiff) from his position as a flight engineer after he refused an assignment to ferry a plane from Burlington, Vermont to Greensboro, North Carolina. Plaintiff alleges that his flight schedule preceding the termination of employment violated several Federal Aviation Regulations (FARS), and, as a result, he was too fatigued to e... More...   $0 (01-06-2009 - NC)

[¶ 1.] The State appeals the circuit court's grant of Oakley B. Engesser's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This is Engesser's second petition for a writ of habeas corpus in state court. A jury convicted Engesser of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular battery. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. His conviction was affirmed on appeal i... More...   $0 (12-23-2008 - SD)

Defendant Dalia Perez (Perez) appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County issued August 16, 2007, dismissing with prejudice her motion for judgment on the pleadings. Perez’s motion alleged that the homeowner’s insurance policy did not exclude coverage for a negligence claim (count II) of her lawsuit against the driver involved in the car accident that injured her on May 15, 2005.... More...   $0 (12-23-2008 - IL)

Defendant Dalia Perez (Perez) appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County issued August 16, 2007, dismissing with prejudice her motion for judgment on the pleadings. Perez’s motion alleged that the homeowner’s insurance policy did not exclude coverage for a negligence claim (count II) of her lawsuit against the driver involved in the car accident that injured her on May 15, 2005.... More...   $0 (12-23-2008 - IL)

Plaintiff and appellant Susana Ontiveros (plaintiff) sustained personal injuries while exercising on a stair step machine at a fitness center owned and operated by defendant and respondent 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc.1 (defendant). She sued defendant, asserting, inter alia, a claim for strict product liability. The trial court granted defendant’s summary judgment motion as to that claim on the grou... More...   $0 (12-19-2008 - CA)

This suit arose in accordance with the provisions of the Hatch-Waxman Act, codified at 35 U.S.C. §271(e) and 21 U.S.C. §355(j). The patent at issue is United States Patent No. 4,847,265 (the ’265 patent), owned by Sanofi-Synthelabo and related companies (collectively “Sanofi”), and covers the pharmaceutical product having the common name clopidogrel bisulfate and the brand name Plavix®. T... More...   $0 (12-19-2008 - NY)

The Family and Estate of David Duff brought sued Mike Spearman, the owner of the Turbine Design TD-2 aircraft that was involved in the plane crash that resulted in the deaths of Duff and Terry Willis at George R. Carr Memorial Air Field near Bogalusa, Louisiana in 2005. Plaintiffs claimed that negligent maintenance of the aircraft was the cause of the accident which went from an idle-power, nose-... More...   $0 (12-19-2008 - TX)

Marsha M. Molard, then eighteen years of age and living with her mother, Marie Puverge, was injured in an automobile accident while riding in a taxicab on October 16, 2002. Because she could identify neither the taxi driver nor the driver of the other vehicle involved in the accident, she filed a claim with Pilgrim Insurance Company (Pilgrim) seeking uninsured motorist benefits under a standard Ma... More...   $0 (12-16-2008 - MA)

John Tennison and Antoine Goff (collectively “Plaintiffs”) served nearly thirteen years in state prison for a murder of which both have been declared factually innocent by the courts. They were both released from custody after the district court granted Tennison’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Following their release, they filed complaints under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging, inter alia,... More...   $0 (12-08-2008 - CA)

Plaintiff Cherilyn Kellogg brought this action against defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Pfizer Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Plan, claiming she was wrongly denied accidental death and dismemberment benefits under an employee welfare benefit plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Cherilyn ... More...   $0 (12-04-2008 - UT)

¶1 Masoumeh Bagherinassab (Appellant) appeals from an order of the trial court, which annulled her marriage to Mohammad Ali Seirafi-Pour (Appellee). The issue on appeal is whether the trial court's decision that the parties' marriage had been procured by fraud practiced by Appellant is supported by the evidence. We find that the trial court's decision to annul the marriage due to fraud is support... More...   $0 (11-26-2008 - OK)

Eugene William sued Cumberland County, New Jersey on a governmental tort claim negligence theory for the injuries and damages that he suffered in a motorcycle crash in March 7, 2005 which he claimed on the County's repeated failure to fix a dangerous condition and for failing to properly warn of the danger on Route 555, in Laurel Lake. It was nearly dark when Williams crossed the roadway on his Ha... More...   $0 (11-21-2008 - NJ)

This appeal is from a trial court order prohibiting the defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company (Union Pacific) from compelling plaintiff Carlyle Pratt to attend a medical examination or conducting a disciplinary hearing to terminate Pratt’s employment for refusing to provide it with medical evidence justifying his continued absence from work. In the underlying suit, Pratt filed suit against hi... More...   $0 (11-12-2008 - CA)

On Christmas Day 2003, Steven and Susan Maini, their two children, and Susan’s parents died in a plane crash at the North Las Vegas airport. This appeal arises out of a conflict between Susan’s brother and Steven’s brother, the administrators of Susan’s and Steven’s respective estates, over the distribution of the ownership interest in a Maini family company, respondent/cross-appellant... More...   $0 (11-12-2008 - NV)

This case raises the question of the appropriate standard of culpability to apply to a police officer who kills a suspect in the course of investigating a suspicious car parked alongside an Alaska highway, under circumstances that suggest the officer may have helped to create an emergency situation by his own excessive actions. It comes in the context of a lawsuit brought by the parents of the vic... More...   $0 (10-23-2008 - AK)

This appeal concerns Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 (49 C.F.R. § 571.208 (2008); FMVSS 208), a regulation promulgated under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (49 U.S.C. § 30101 et seq.; Safety Act), which authorizes automobile manufacturers to install a lap-only seatbelt at the inboard seating positions of a vehicle. The issue is whether the regulation preempts a commo... More...   $0 (10-22-2008 - CA)

Plaintiffs Glenn Weigel and David Weigel filed this action against Wyoming Highway Patrol Officers John K. Broad and Devan Henderson, and their supervisor, John Cox, individually. Plaintiffs make claims of failure to train and excessive force under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state negligence law. The claims stem from the death of their brother, Bruce Weigel, who died after an altercation with Troopers ... More...   $0 (10-22-2008 - WY)