The question presented concerns the appropriate application of the "frequency, regularity, proximity" criteria in asbestos product liability litigation. John I. Gregg, Jr. ("Mr. Gregg") died in March 1998. A year later, his son, Appellee John Andrew Gregg, as executor for his father's estate, filed a product liability complaint naming more than seventy defendants and alleging civil liabil... More...   $0 (01-03-2008 - PA)

¶1 This case concerns a dispute over the price of fuel that convenience store owner Mike Batman purchased from fuel distributor Metro Petroleum, Inc. The price stated in the parties' written contract was one cent per gallon above the actual delivered cost price of fuel. Mr. Batman has contended the "cost price of fuel" includes a 1% discount Metro receives after delivery for paying the refinery w... More...   $0 (12-14-2007 - OK)

�1 This case concerns a dispute over the price of fuel that convenience store owner Mike Batman purchased from fuel distributor Metro Petroleum, Inc. The price stated in the parties' written contract was one cent per gallon above the actual delivered cost price of fuel. Mr. Batman has contended the "cost price of fuel" includes a 1% discount Metro receives after delivery for paying the... More...   $0 (12-14-2007 - OK)

Justice Robinson for the Court. The plaintiff, Greensleeves, Inc., appeals to this Court from the entry of judgment in favor of the defendant, Eugene W. Friedrich.1 This case came before the Court for oral argument on October 1, 2007, pursuant to an order directing the parties to appear and show cause why the issues raised in this appeal should not be summarily decided. After considering ... More...   $0 (12-13-2007 - RI)

After a bench trial, the circuit court concluded that Pamela and Steven Stouffer had a contract with T & L Janitorial, Inc. d/b/a ServiceMaster to clean and restore their home after a fire. The court further concluded that the Stouffers broke that contract when they refused to endorse a final check from their insurer, one of the Cincinnati Insurance Companies, to ServiceMaster. The Stouff... More...   $0 (12-12-2007 - AR)

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a... More...   $0 (12-09-2007 - CO)

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a... More...   $0 (12-09-2007 - CO)

Al Flowers sued Minneapolis City Council members Don Samuels and Paul Ostrow on a civil rights violation theory, 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming that defendants used their influence to get plaintiff's public-access TV show pulled off the air. The lawsuit sprang from comments made by a guest on Flowers' show in May 2005. Booker T. Hodges called Samuels a "house negro" and used a racial epithet to urge ... More...   $3 (12-05-2007 - MN)

"We are extremely gratified by the jury's verdict, as we have always believed that the plaintiffs' cla... More...   $0 (12-04-2007 - CA)

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a... More...   $0 (11-30-2007 - CO)

Stockholder class action securities fraud claims against Kevin Kalkhoven and three other executives from his former company in which plaintiffs claimed that JDS Uniphase mislead investors about the value of their business and selling their shares at artificially inflated prices. The fiber optics parts provider ran into financial problems in 2001 when business spending on telecommunications pro... More...   $0 (11-30-2007 - CA)

For many years, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation, a North Carolina electric cooperative, had a pole-attachment agreement with Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership, a cable service provider, permitting Time Warner to attach its cable to Carteret-Craven Electric's utility poles. The initial fee in the 1997 renewal of the agreement provided that Time Warner p... More...   $0 (11-15-2007 - NC)

Plaintiff Mabel Kay Thomas ("Thomas") appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Speedway SuperAmerica LLC ("Speedway"), which denied her claims for unpaid overtime wages under both federal and state law. The district court held that Thomas was a bona fide executive employee under 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1) and thus not entitled to overtime wages. The narrow issue on appe... More...   $0 (10-30-2007 - OH)

In this limited civil action arising under 47 United States Code section 227, commonly known as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA" or the Act), we must determine whether a state or federal statute of limitations correctly applies, where plaintiff is asserting a private right of action for damages for violations of the Act. The matter was certified for transfer to this Co... More...   $0 (10-06-2007 - CA)

BMC Resources, Inc. (BMC) appeals the district court's decision on summary judgment that Paymentech, L.P. (Paymentech) does not infringe asserted claims from two patents owned by BMC. The court determined that Paymentech had not infringed the claims because it performed some but not all of the steps of the asserted method claims. Because the record contains no basis to hold Paymentech vicario... More...   $0 (09-20-2007 - TX)

Sprint Spectrum, L.P., does not dispute that it breached its contract with its former bill collector, Penncro Associates, Inc. Still, it offers two reasons why, in its view, the district court's judgment for Penncro in excess of $17 million should be reversed. First, Sprint argues that the parties' agreement precludes the sort of damages Penncro seeks. In their contract, the parties agreed to... More...   $17136612 (08-30-2007 - KS)

The controlling legal issue presented in this appeal is whether an Agreed Special Setting and Docket Control Order incorporated a written agreement extending the date for serving an expert report under section 74.351(a) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 74.351(a) (Vernon Supp. 2006). Because we hold that the docket control order includes with... More...   $0 (08-25-2007 - TX)

"Consumer Digital Services, JSE Direct and their subsidiaries advertise on their Web sites that they will ‘protect your computer and... More...   $1000000 (06-21-2007 - WA)

Telecommunications Systems, Inc. sued Mobile 365 on a patent infringement claim. Information about the patent that Telecommunications owned that it claimed was infringed by Mobile 365, a subsidiary Sybase, Inc., is not available.... More...   $12100000 (05-26-2007 - VA)

We examine in this case the extent to which G.L. c. 231, § 59H, popularly known as the "anti-SLAPP" [FN2] statute, effectively shields one party in an ongoing legal dispute from liability for the publication of allegedly defamatory statements concerning the opposing party. The Cadle Company (Cadle) filed a multi-count complaint in the Superior court seeking damages and declaratory and injunctiv... More...   $0 (01-29-2007 - MA)

The defendant, Glenn F. Russell, was for many years a familiar personality on Channel 36, Rhode Island's public television station. As its director of public affairs he had occasion to interview many, if not all, of the state's major policymakers and public figures. In 1992, Russell was notified that, because of reductions in state financing, his position had been abolished and he was being... More...   $0 (01-29-2007 - RI)

Duluth property owner James Bechthold leased a commercial site to Minnesota Towers, Inc., for the construction of a 195-foot telecommunications tower. American Cellular Corporation and other wireless cell phone service providers planned to use the tower to better serve the Piedmont Heights area of Duluth. Minnesota Towers and Bechthold (hereafter collectively referred to as Minnesota Towers... More...   $0 (01-11-2007 - MN)

JMC Telecom, L.L.C., was a wholesaler, marketer, and designer of prepaid telephone cards with experience in the maritime market.1 This appeal arises from a suit for breach of contract brought by AT&T Corporation against JMC. JMC counterclaimed for antitrust, federal common law, and state law violations. The District Court dismissed the antitrust counterclaim and granted summary judgment to... More...   $0 (12-12-2006 - NJ)

Plaintiff, Jessica Hall, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed suit against defendants, Sprint Spectrum L.P., doing business as Sprint PCS Group, and SprintCom, Inc., doing business as Sprint PCS Group. The parties stipulated to a protective order entered by the circuit court of Madison County. Pursuant to a motion by plaintiff, the circuit court later modified the ... More...   $0 (11-05-2006 - IL)

Appellants, Nokia Corporation and Nokia, Inc. (collectively, "Nokia"), appeal the March 14, 2006 Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denying Nokia's motion to stay litigation with appellees, Qualcomm Inc. and SnapTrack, Inc. (collectively, "Qualcomm"), pending arbitration. Qualcomm Inc. v. Nokia Corp., No. 05-CV-2063 B (S.D. Cal. Mar. 14, 2006) ("Or... More...   $0 (10-25-2006 - CA)