{1} Plaintiffs appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) on Plaintiffs’ claims of vicarious and direct liability for negligence. Plaintiffs’ daughter, Angela Ovecka, was killed in an automobile collision with BNSF’s employee, Kenneth Long. Long was highly intoxicated at the time of the accident.... More...   $0 (07-09-2008 - NM)

Peter and Kate Brophy sued Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Cheryl Neal on negligence and respondeat superior theories for the injuries and damages that they believed that they sustained as a result of a semi-tractor trailer automobile accident at the I-25 and 80 interchange in July 2006. Peter suffered a head injury that cause severe permanent brain damage. The crash occurred on July 25, 2006 as Bro... More...   $18000000 (06-28-2008 - WY)

The defenses asserted by the Authority and its driver are not available.... More...   $175000 (04-26-2008 - PA)

Slobodanka Blazevska and her co-appellants are the family members of eight Macedonian residents who died in a plane accident in Bosnia on February 26, 2004. The decedents, including the Macedonian president, were killed when their Beechcraft Super King Air 200 crashed into a hilltop. The plaintiffs brought a wrongful death action against Raytheon, the manufacturer of the plane. The district ... More...   $0 (04-12-2008 - CA)

The issue in this case is whether a cause of action for intentional interference with custody and visitation rights is sustainable by a father, Michael Shannon, against his former wife, Nermeen Khalifa Shannon, and her mother, Afaf Nassar Khalifa ("Appellants"), both of whom fled to Egypt with the couple's two minor children, who remain there. Appellants moved to dismiss the father's complaint... More...   $3017500 (04-11-2008 - MD)

This appeal focuses on a wrongful-death claim that plaintiff, Michelle Williams, brought in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant, John Manchester. Plaintiff sought damages for the death of her unborn child, Baby Doe. The circuit court entered summary judgment in favor of defendant on that claim, but a divided panel of the appellate court reversed. 372 Ill. App. 3d 211. We allow... More...   $0 (04-04-2008 - IL)

Plaintiffs sued Tim McCandless, Inc. and others on fraud and breach of contract theories, claiming that the defendants misrepresented the condition of a used Cessna P210 that plaintiffs purchased in 2002. Plaintiffs paid $202,000 for the aircraft claimed that they did not learn until after the plane was delivered to the Waukegan Municipal Airport in Illinois that it needed $26,000 in repairs, larg... More...   $76460 (04-02-2008 - IA)

Plaintiff and appellant Bob Yari contends that the right applies to decisions made by defendants and respondents the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America in connection with the Academy Awards. Specifically, he contends that the right applies to defendants' decision that, for purposes of the Best Picture award, he was not a producer of Crash, the movie ... More...   $0 (03-31-2008 - CA)

The family and estates of Steven Motelson, age 60, his grandson and others sued Ford Motor Company on a products liability theory claiming that the roof support system on the 1998 Ford Explorer that Motelson was driving was defective and unreasonably dangerous and, as a direct result, the roof sheared away exposing Motelson to fatal head injuries. Motelson. 9-year-old grandson, who was a passenge... More...   $6500000 (03-29-2008 - NJ)

In the underlying action, Jane Doe (Doe), a minor, asserted claims against United Air Lines, Inc. (United) arising out of a sexual assault. After granting summary judgment in favor of United, the trial court granted Doe's motion for a new trial on her claims against United. United appealed from the new trial order, and Doe asserted a protective cross-appeal regarding the grant of summary judg... More...   $0 (03-20-2008 - CA)

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is a freight broker (or, in its estimation, a "travel agent for freight"). REI Transport, Inc., is an Illinois trucking company that provides drayage services - in this case, the local delivery of cargo from a railroad terminal to the cargo's final destination. The retail electronics company Circuit City hired C.H. Robinson to coordinate the shipment of several... More...   $0 (03-20-2008 - IL)

Thedos was on duty as a Cook County sheriff's police officer. She and another officer, Yolanda Collins, were sitting in their vehicles in a White Hen parking lot on 143rd Street. At 2:19 a.m., a police dispatcher relaye... More...   $0 (03-03-2008 - IL)

Warner-Lambert Company ("Warner-Lambert") appeals from the District Court's entry of final judgment limiting the liability of Federal Express Corporation ("FedEx"), LEP Profit International Inc. ("LEP Profit"), and LEP International (Japan), Ltd. ("LEP Japan") to $9.07 per pound, pursuant to Article 22(2) of the Warsaw Convention, for pharmaceutical cargo destroyed when a FedEx plane crashed... More...   $0 (02-29-2008 - NJ)

Randy D. Canister appeals from a defense judgment entered after a jury found the defendant ambulance company not negligent in the accident resulting in appellant's injury. This action raises the issue whether emergency medical technicians (EMT's) are health care providers protected by the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA; Civ. Code, §§ 3333.1, 3333.2; Code Civ. Proc., §§ 340.5, 36... More...   $0 (02-23-2008 - CA)

Family and Estate of Aaron Anaya, Jr. sued Robert "Bucky" Strunk and Betty Strunk dba R.W. Strunk Excavating on a respondeat superior theory claiming that Aaron was killed in an automobile accident on April 14, 2005 after being struck by a pickup driven by Gregory Artz, 48, near South Sheridan Avenue and South Kinney Road in Tucson. Plaintiffs claimed that Artz was working for defendants at the ti... More...   $0 (02-22-2008 - AZ)

American Home Assurance Company, Intervenor below, filed a declaratory judgment action regarding aircraft insurance coverage against Aerolease of America, Inc., and other parties. American Home seeks certiorari review of the trial court's order allowing Aerolease to take the deposition of American Home's corporate representative and requiring American Home to produce documents at the depositio... More...   $0 (02-22-2008 - FL)

Bobby Fultz sued DaimlerChrysler Corp. on a products liability theory claiming that a design defect caused the right front wheel from the Dodge Dakota pickup causing him to loss control of the pickup and crash head-on into a car on Highway O in Franklin County, Missouri on the evening of October 1, 2003. Fultz took his truck into the Barreth Chrysler-Dodge Center dealership in Washington, Mo., t... More...   $0 (02-21-2008 - MO)

This is a tort action in which three defendants caused an automobile accident, one by negligently driving the car, the other two by negligently entrusting the car to the unlicensed driver. A jury found all three liable to the plaintiff and allocated fault among the three defendants, and the trial court, in entering judgment on the verdict, made the driver jointly and severally liable for ... More...   $0 (01-27-2008 - CA)

Javier F. Ovando appeals an order granting a new trial after the jury awarded him $6.5 million in damages against his former defense attorney, Tamar Toister, and her employer, the County of Los Angeles, for legal malpractice resulting in his false conviction. The trial court concluded that a juror had committed prejudicial misconduct by failing to disclose her knowledge of facts concernin... More...   $0 (01-20-2008 - CA)

This appeal involves a premises defect claim against the City of Waco. Debra Kirwan's son, Brad McGehee, was sitting on the edge of Circle Point Cliff in Cameron Park, a park owned and operated by the City, when the ground beneath him gave way and he fell approximately sixty feet to his death. Kirwan, individually and as representative of Brad's estate, brought a wrongful death suit against t... More...   $0 (01-15-2008 - TX)

2 The trial court described the facts and procedural his... More...   $0 (01-13-2008 - PA)

An airline passenger, John Cerqueira, filed suit asserting that his removal from a flight violated his rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 to be free of race discrimination in contracting. He recovered compensatory damages of $130,000 and punitive damages of $270,000 against American Airlines ("American" or "AA"), which on December 28, 2003, refused to transport Cerqueira on a flight and to rebook hi... More...   $0 (01-12-2008 - MA)

These consolidated appeals arise from two related cases in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. In both cases, Cordis Corp. alleged that the defendants had infringed its patents covering vascular stents that are used to treat coronary artery disease. After separate trials, Cordis obtained jury verdicts of infringement against defendant Medtronic AVE, Inc., ("AVE") i... More...   $0 (01-10-2008 - DE)

In March, 2006, plaintiff, Cindy Ploense, as special administrator of the estate of Michael Ploense, deceased, sued the Chrome Coalition, along with other defendants, for participation in a civil conspiracy to suppress knowledge of the harmful health effects of chrome. The Chrome Coalition specially appeared and moved to dismiss the action against it for lack of personal jurisdiction. In ... More...   $0 (01-08-2008 - IL)

On August 14, 2004, a City of Evanston ambulance driven by defendant Jeffrey Gonzales, a City of Evanston firefighter/EMT, collided with a vehicle driven by plaintiff Randall Williams. Plaintiff Marcus Brown was a passenger in Williams' vehicle. After plaintiffs filed a four-count complaint based solely on negligence, they filed an amended complaint, which added four counts based on wil... More...   $0 (01-08-2008 - IL)