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  • First Cash Ltd v. JQ-Parkdale LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 13-16-00099-CV

    Appellant alleged that its lease at a shopping center was breached by appellees, the prior and current landlords, following a fire and vacatur of the premises.

  • Graphic Packaging v. Hegar

    Publication Date: 2018-01-01
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Devine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 15-0669

    A taxpayer that conducts business in multiple states must apportion its business revenue among the states in which it does business.

  • In The Matter Of John F. Meyers.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, W. Matthew Wilson (Akin & Tate PC), Cartersville, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; David Anthony LaMalva, (LaMalva Geoffroy & Oeland PC), Conyers; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1593

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney from the practice of law for two years for his violations of various Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in connection with improper billing to his law firm's corporate client.

  • In re Claudio Lombana

    Publication Date: 2017-12-18
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jamison
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-17-00698-CV

    Relator Claudio Lombana sued his former employer, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, alleging a breach of his employment contract and other offenses.

  • Nugent v. Estate of Ellickson

    Publication Date: 2017-12-11
    Practice Area: Contracts | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals, Fourteenth Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Boyce
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-16-00839-CV

    The Estate of Janie Baker Ellickson sued appellants Richard Nugent and Cao Inc., resulting in a bench trial in which it was determined that the appellants committed four breaches of fiduciary duty in the contracted sale of the deceaseds home.

  • Minsa v. SFTCC

    Publication Date: 2017-12-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Appeals, Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
    Judge: Justice Pirtle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 07-16-00001-CV

    Appellant Minsa Corporation, a corn flour supplier, sued its former customer SFTC in a dispute over SFTCs failure to render $110,238 in outstanding payments related to the delivery and resulting replacement of allegedly shoddy corn flour product.

  • Lambert v. Nutraceutical Corp.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Class Actions | Food and Drug Act
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Date Filed: 2017-09-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: André Birotte, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard A. Paez, Marsha S. Berzon, and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Weston (argued) and David Elliott, The Weston Firm, San Diego, California; Ronald A. Marron, The Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron APLC, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Steven N. Feldman (argued) and John C. Hueston, Hueston Hennigan LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jon F. Monroy, Monroy Averbuck & Gysler, West Lake Village, California; for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 15-56423

    Filing of motion for reconsideration tolled 14-day deadline for seeking interlocutory appeal of order decertifying class (Paez, J.)

  • United States v. Spatig

    Publication Date: 2017-09-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Wiley Y. Daniel, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Michael R. Murphy,*M. Margaret McKeown, and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Anne Polachek (argued), Adam C. Cullman, Allen M. Brabender, and Aaron P. Avila, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Michael J. Fica, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Pocatello, Idaho; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Steven V. Richert (argued), Federal Defender Services of Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 15-30322

    Diminished capacity no defense to charge of knowingly storing hazardous waste (McKeown, J.)

  • Doe v. Hagenbeck, 15-1890-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee for Jane Doe: Rebecca Ojserkis, Jonas Wang, Erin Baldwin, Kathryn Wynbrandt, Bethany Li, Michael J. Wishnie, Veteran Legal Services Clinic, Jerome M. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants for Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck and Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp: Christopher Connolly, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, for Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Amici Curiae for Amici Curiae Federal Courts and Constitutional Law Professors, in support of Jane Doe: Caitlin J. Halligan, Joel M. Cohen, Casey K. Lee, Kathryn M. Cherry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae University Administrators, in support of Jane Doe: Paul W. Hughes, Travis Crum, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Military Officers, in support of Jane Doe: Penelope A. Preovolos, Ben Patterson, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae National Veterans Legal Services Program, Protect Our Defenders, Service Women's Action Network, in support of Jane Doe: John D. Niles, James Anglin Flynn, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, Human Rights Watch, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, National Women's Law Center, in support of Jane Doe: Sandra S. Park, Steven Watt, Lenora M. Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 15-1890-cv

    Incident-to-Service Rule Precluded Bivens Claim from Conduct at Military A

  • L.A. T-Shirt & Print, Inc. v. Rue 21, Inc., 16-CV-5400

    Publication Date: 2017-09-07
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Ronnie Abrams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-CV-5400

    Copyright Claim for Animal Designs Plausible Where Color Patterns and Features