This matter comes before the Court on the Petitions for Review of Final Agency Action filed separately in each of these consolidated actions, challenging the Bureau of Land Management's issuance of regulations applying to hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. The Court, having considered the briefs and materials submitted in support of the petitions and the oppositions thereto, includi... More...   $0 (06-23-2016 - WY)

On May 21, 2011, Appellant Jerry Jamgotchian claimed Rochitta, a bay
filly, for $42,400 in a claiming race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
Foaled February 26, 2008 in Pennsylvania, Rochitta was first purchased at the
2009 Keeneland Yearling Sales in Lexington, Kentucky for $160,000 by Rabbah
Bloodstock. Prior to her debut at Churchill Downs, Rochitta had run
pr... More...   $0 (05-06-2016 - KY)

Cook Timber, a logging company based in Bay Springs, Mississippi, has been in
operation since 1983. Georgia Pacific is a national wood-processing company with several
facilities in Mississippi. In southeast Mississippi, Georgia Pacific operated the Leaf River
Group. This group consisted of five mills, including the Taylorsville Plywood Plant,
Taylorsville Chip Mill, Bay Springs S... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - AL)

As we explained in ASE I, the structural steel industry
is comprised of steel fabricators, who manufacture steel products
to meet design specifications, and steel erectors, who assemble
the fabricated steel. When a developer or owner taps a general
contractor to lead the construction of a building, that general
contractor typically solicits bids for a combined "fab and er... More...   $0 (02-26-2016 - MA)

On December 20, 2011 the district court sentenced Hughes to 30 days in prison and 24 months of supervised release. More importantly, the court’s sentencing judgment made Hughes and her co-defendant Douglas Brown, the owner of DB Training, jointly and severally liable for $442,330 in restitution. But, critically, the district court also expressed a clear intention that the actual restitution amou... More...   $0 (02-23-2016 - DC)

Amidst the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the Office of the State Bank
Commissioner of Kansas declared The Columbian Bank and Trust Company
insolvent, seized the bank’s assets, and appointed the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation as receiver. The FDIC then sold many of the bank’s
assets. Columbian Financial Corporation, the bank’s sole shareholder, sued
the state bank comm... More...   $0 (01-27-2016 - KS)

In the underlying proceeding, Sunset Ridge sued two other entities, Twin Creeks
Property, Ltd., and Twin Creeks Operating Co., L.P., and asserted claims based on a “monopoly in
violation of the Texas Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Anti-Trust Act” and for declaratory judgment
to construe an amended restrictive covenant and declare it invalid based on a provision of the Texas
Uniform Con... More...   $0 (01-26-2016 - TX)

Jaclan Lanam had her right knee replaced at Promise Regional Medical CenterHutchinson, Inc., in October 2009. She was discharged from the hospital 3 days later. Kelly Zoglman, a certified nurse assistant, transferred Lanam from her hospital chair to a wheelchair. Zoglman then rolled Lanam out to the car waiting to take her home. Zoglman was the sole assistant assigned to transfer Lanam from her wh... More...   $0 (01-23-2016 - KS)

Boise, ID - Treasure Valley Contractor Pleads Guilty and is Resentenced

Elaine Martin, 69, of Meridian, Idaho, the former president and majority stockholder of MarCon, Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of making and subscribing a false tax return before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. Following the entry of her plea, Judge Winmill sentenced her for the tax conviction, and res... More...   $0 (01-11-2016 - ID)

Congress has long given the Attorney General discretion to decide whether to take aliens who are subject to
removal into immigration custody. Congress also has long given the Attorney General discretion to decide whether to release on
bond aliens who are in immigration custody while their removal proceedings are pending. Nearly thirty years ago, however,
Congress began enacting a... More...   $0 (12-23-2015 - MA)

In this removed action, plaintiff-counterdefendant’s motion to remand presents the
question whether the court has federal question jurisdiction despite the assertion of only
state-law claims in plaintiff-counterdefendant’s state court petition. Concluding that the
court does not have federal question jurisdiction, it grants the motion to remand and awards
plaintiff-counterdefenda... More...   $0 (11-24-2015 - TX)

Hanover 3201 Realty, LLC (“Hanover Realty”) signed a contract with Wegmans to develop a supermarket on its property in Hanover, New Jersey. The agreement required Hanover Realty to secure all necessary governmental permits and approvals prior to breaking ground. Village Supermarkets, Inc. (“ShopRite”) owns the local ShopRite. Once ShopRite and its subsidiary Hanover and Horsehill Development L... More...   $0 (11-13-2015 - NJ)

This copyright dispute tests the boundaries of fair use. Plaintiffs, who are authors of
28 published books under copyright, sued Google, Inc. (“Google”) for copyright infringement in the
29 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Chin, J.). They appeal from
30 the grant of summary judgment in Google’s favor. Through its Library Project and its Google
31 ... More...   $0 (11-08-2015 - NY)

This copyright dispute tests the boundaries of fair use. Plaintiffs, who are authors of 27
published books under copyright, sued Google, Inc. (“Google”) for copyright infringement in the 28
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Chin, J.). They appeal from 29
the grant of summary judgment in Google’s favor. Through its Library Project and its Google 30 <... More...   $0 (10-19-2015 - NY)

Court decides whether a sequence of twenty-six yoga poses and two breathing exercises developed by Bikram Choudhury and described in his 1979 book, Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class, is entitled to copyright protection.

We must decide whether a sequence of twenty-six yoga poses and two breathing exercises developed by Bikram Choudhury and described in his 1979 book, Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Cl... More...   $0 (10-12-2015 - CA)

SD3, LLC and its subsidiary, SawStop, LLC (together, “SawStop”), contend that several major table-saw manufacturers conspired to boycott SawStop’s safety technology and corrupt a private safety-standard-setting process, all with the aim of keeping that technology off the market. Consequently, SawStop sued nearly two dozen saw manufacturers and affiliated entities, alleging that they violated § 1 o... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - VA)

Indiana Code § 33-33-49-13 (“the Statute” or “the Partisan Balance Statute”) establishes the system for the election of judges to the Marion Superior Court in Marion County, Indiana. This system is unique in Indiana, as it is the only office where primary election voters do not vote for as many candidates as there are persons to be elected to that office in the general election. See Ind. Code § 3-... More...   $0 (09-13-2015 - IN)

Gregory Bernard Griffin was convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment charged that he defrauded two federally insured banks. One of those banks, Bank of America Corporation,1 was indisputably not involved in his scheme, and at trial the government showed only that the other bank, Magnolia Federal Cred... More...   $0 (09-01-2015 - MS)

The PUC is an agency created by the California Constitution to regulate privately owned public utilities such as PG&E. (Cal. Const., art. XII.)
PegaStaff is a division of PegaSoft Corporation, a California corporation, that provides temporary staffing in the fields of information technology and engineering. Mark Arshinkoff, a white male, owns 100 percent of PegaSoft stock.
For nine... More...   $0 (08-29-2015 - CA)

Insulate SB, Inc., a purchaser of fast-set spray foam equipment (FSE), filed this
antitrust class action alleging FSE manufacturer Graco Inc. and its subsidiary Graco
Minnesota Inc. (Graco) and a number of FSE distributors (Distributors) (collectively,
appellees) conspired to restrain trade in violation of federal antitrust law, see 15
U.S.C. § 1, et seq., and numerous state antitr... More...   $0 (08-13-2015 - MN)

The essential facts contained in DFA’s complaint and its attached exhibits
are these. DFA operates many duty free stores in American airports with
international terminals. DFA is one of approximately ten major operators of duty
free stores in the United States. DFA currently holds leases in thirteen
international airports located in eleven cities: New York (JFK and LaGuardia... More...   $0 (08-09-2015 - GA)

St. Louis, MO - Eighth Circuit affirms District Court summary judgment in favor of Missouri Highway Patrol


Mark and Gail Robbins, the owners and operators of I-44 Truck Center and
Wrecker Service, LLC and I-44 Wrecker Service, LLC (collectively, the Robbinses),
appeal the district court’s adverse grant of summary 1 judgment to fourteen individual
officers and supervisors ... More...   $0 (07-27-2015 - MO)

2 The question in this case is whether a Connecticut rule restricting the
3 use of certain teeth‐whitening procedures to licenced dentists is unconstitutional
4 under the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses. Because we conclude that
5 there are any number of rational grounds for the rule, we affirm the judgment of
6 the District Court.
7 BACKGROUND
8 Under Connect... More...   $0 (07-17-2015 - CT)

14 Since the invention of the printing press, the distribution of books has
15 involved a fundamentally consistent process: compose a manuscript, print and
16 bind it into physical volumes, and then ship and sell the volumes to the public.  
17 In late 2007, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon�) introduced the Kindle, a portable
18 device that carries digital copies of books, known as ... More...   $0 (07-02-2015 - NY)

In Brulotte v. Thys Co., 379 U. S. 29 (1964), this Court held that a patent holder cannot charge royalties for the use of his invention after its patent term has expired. The sole question presented here is whether we should overrule Brulotte. Adhering to principles of stare decisis, we decline to do so. Critics of the Brulotte rule must seek relief not from this Court but from Congress.
I In ... More...   $0 (06-22-2015 - DC)