Robert Roge appeals from Judge Hellerstein's grant of summary judgment and dismissal of his complaint. Roge claims that his employer, NYP Holdings, Inc. (usually "Post"), owner of the New York Post, terminated him because of his age. On appeal, he argues that the district court failed to consider evidence of pretext and that other material issues of fact remain in dispute. However, it is undispute

Intellectual Property - Wrongful Republication of DeCSS for DVD - Petitioner Matthew Pavlovich petitions for a writ of mandate to compel the trial court to quash service of process.

We deny the petition.

Defendants Ornda Health Corporation, Inc. (Ornda), Tenet Health Care Corporation (Tenet), and Davenport Medical Center (Davenport) (collectively hereafter referred to as corporate defendants) bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court's order finding personal jurisdiction over them. We affirm and remand the cause.

Plaintiff Patsy Hendry brought a 23-count complaint against the corp

Defendants Ornda Health Corporation, Inc. (Ornda), Tenet Health Care Corporation (Tenet), and Davenport Medical Center (Davenport) (collectively hereafter referred to as corporate defendants) bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court's order finding personal jurisdiction over them. We affirm and remand the cause.

Plaintiff Patsy Hendry brought a 23-count complaint against the corp

Plaintiffs' counsel appeal the district court's imposition of sanctions, which include a fine, a prohibition on filing certain cases without leave of court, and a reduction of attorneys' fees provided for in a contingency fee agreement.

The underlying cases in this appeal arose after several young girls were allegedly sexually, physically, and mentally abused by employees of Wackenhut Correct

John Murdock, a retired Hartford Connecticut police detective claimed that Sargent Antonio Cancel assaulted and battered him in a restaurant where they met to discuss complaints about Cancel's management style. Murdock testified Cancel continued to hit him in the head until he fell onto a newspaper vending box.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 99 C 2057--Ian H. Levin, Magistrate Judge.

The Jones Group, Inc. ("Jones") manufactures and sells "Beanie Racers," which are plush toys shaped like race cars. Ty, which sells plush toys under the name "Beanie Babies," obtained a preliminary injunction against Jones, forcing it to st

The appellants, Paradise Lane Owners, are the individual owners and occupants of six residential properties on Paradise Lane in unincorporated Boulder County. The lots owned by Paradise Lane Owners total seventy acres, with ten acres on Paradise Lane unoccupied. Storage Technology Company ("StorageTek") owns an adjacent eighty acre lot to the south of Paradise Lane. This lot is adjacent to and nor

On February 14, 2000, the government, through its Assistant United States Attorney, Ken Snoke, applied for two search warrants to search the two above-captioned addresses. The warrants authorized the search of MK's offices located at the Tar Creek Superfund site in Pitcher, Oklahoma. The government simultaneously moved to seal the affidavits supporting the two search warrants. The magistrate judge

Defamation claim by former Florida Today reporter who claimed that she was accused of being a criminal and was fired by the newspaper after she and another report entered the apartment of an accused murder and took a list of telephone numbers.

Civil Rights - Job Discrimination - Age - Plaintiff, age 48, claimed that the Arizona Republic newspaper abruptly fired him in September 1996. He claimed he was demoted from his position as CFO of the newspaper and then terminated because of his age.

Defendant denied that age had anything to do with the restructuring of the company and the termination of Mr. Zabek's employment.

On October 7, 1998, Bryan Johnston, a college student went to the public safety office at Fullerton College to report terrorist and hate-motivated threats made by a fellow student. The student told Johnston that if he had $2,000, he would drive a “Timothy McVeigh van into the Social Security Administration,” that he did not care about killing innocent people since they are not innocent

Defamation - Plaintiff claimed that she was defamed by an article published in Defendant's newspaper about a Salvation Army summer lunch program that provided free meals to children. The article included a photograph of Plaintiff's daughter on the front page of the paper and quoted Salvation Army workers who said that the children might not eat lunch if not for the free lunch program.

Copyright Infringement Claim - Defendants Westside Story Newspaper, Wallace J. Allen and W.J. Allen Multimedia Productions, Inc., own and operate a weekly newspaper that is based in Southern California. Plaintiffs' trademark, "West Side Story", was incorporated into the title of the defendants' newspaper. Plaintiffs further alleged that defendants wrongfully registered www.westsidestory.com as

In rem civil forfeiture action pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 881(a)(6). The Government sought the forfeiture of $29,266.00 that was found on the person of Frank Ezeugoji when he attempted to depart on a domestic flight from Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Ezeugoji arrived at Midway Airport on July 6, 1998 on a flight from New York. He used cash to purchase a one-way ticket to Detroit to depart the

Libel - Texas Monthly published an article entitled "The King of Bankruptcy," by Gary Cartwright, in its July 1995 issue. "The King of Bankruptcy" concerns Jack Stanley and his company, TNG. The article asks in its heading, "How did Houston natural gas mogul Jack Stanley go from $1.2 billion in debt in 1983 to $2 billion to the good eleven years later? A recent trial gave some clues." The text con

San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendant on a breach of contract theory.

The fundamental issue here is how to compute the cost of newspaper advertising space in a major metropolitan market. A complicating factor is that, for all practical purposes, there are only two actors in that market. An unbroken line of decisional authority holds

Defamation - Bandido's is a Mexican-style restaurant with three locations in Fort Wayne Indiana, and one in Lima, Ohio. On September 13, 1988, the Allen County Board of Public Health conducted a health inspection of the north-side Bandido's in Fort Wayne. In the report, the inspector identified several violations and made the following relevant remarks: "Evidence of flies, roaches and rodents note

Wrongful Death - Automobile / Pedestrian Accident - Vicarious Liability - Defendant Willie Hall is a newspaper carrier for the defendant Knight-Ridder, Inc., d/b/a the Miami Herald. Hall was driving a van that hit and killed Annie King, as she was walking on the street. Thereafer, Annie's husband, Frank King filed a wrongful death action on behalf of his wife's estate and himself indiviually.

Plaintiffs' claims arose out of the tragic vents which occurred at the Mount Carmel religious center outside of Waco, Texas. Many of the underlying fact were not disputed, and were widely publicized in the media and during various Congressional hearings.

In the 1930's, a splinter group of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, known as the Branch Davidians, re-located to Waco, Texas from Califor

Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press - Statesboro Publishing Company delivers a weekly shopper newspaper, the Penny-Saver, without charge to Sylvania city residents by throwing the paper in yards or driveways. To deal with the litter caused by unclaimed papers, the City of Sylvania enacted an ordinance that prohibits distribution of handbills or printed material that is delivered in yards, drivewa

Consumer Fraud Act case. Delaney , an automotive consumer, brought suit against defendant Garden State Auto Park, an automobile dealership, seeking damages for consumer fraud, breach of contract and negligence relating to the purchase of a used automobile. . Plaintiff responded to a newspaper advertisement in the Asbury Park Press for a 1988 Ford Crown Victoria at defendant's advertised price

Wrongful Death - Unfair or Deceptive Practices - Breach of Contract - In December of 1991, the Floyds defaulted on the Farm Credit loan. In March of 1992, Farm Credit sent a letter to the Floyds announcing its intention to foreclose on their farm and personal residence if the total indebtedness was not paid in full within five days. After an attempt to pay their arrearages failed, the Floyds rec

In November 1988, Roundtable Publishing, Inc., published a book written by Robert Morrow (Morrow) and entitled The Senator Must Die: The Murder of Robert Kennedy. The Morrow book alleged that the Iranian Shah's secret police, working together with the Mafia, carried out the 1968 assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in California and that Kennedy's assassin was not S

Fraud, specifically fraudulent suppression and active concealment - In 1973, Aronov purchased a large tract of land in Prattville, and, for a number of years, it leased the property to farmers. At trial, two farmers testified that they had seen evidence of a cemetery on a portion of the land.

In late 1992, Aronov began developing the Pecan Ridge subdivision on the land. John