Plaintiff-appellant and cross-appellee, Spirit of Excellence (SOE), through a trustee in bankruptcy, appeals the grant of a motion to reconsider a prior summary judgment favoring SOE, and entry of summary judgment for defendant-appellee and cross-appellant, Intercargo Insurance Company (Intercargo). SOE also appeals the order in favor of defendant-appellee, Abaco International Shippers, Inc. (A... More...   $0 (09-26-2002 - IL)

Defendant-Appellant Ford Motor Company ("Ford") appeals a jury verdict awarding $9,003,000 to Plaintiff-Appellee Richard Rodgers Mason, as sole surviving parent and administrator of the estate of his son, Richard Robert Mason ("Dick Bob"), in connection with an automobile crash in which Dick Bob died. Ford contends that (i) the district court erred in denying Ford's motion for a new trial based on... More...   $9003000 (09-24-2002 - GA)

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company appeals from a jury verdict finding it guilty of monopolistic behavior in violation of Oklahoma state law and assessing damages of over $7 million, trebled to over $20 million. At issue is Southwestern Bell's domination of the Oklahoma pay phone market, a market it legally monopolized, under the oversight of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), until Novem... More...   $7465450 (09-11-2002 - OK)

A jury found against Xiaomei
Yang and Xu Liu on various copyright-infringement,
breach-of-contract, breach-of-fiduciary-duty, and conversion
of property claims. Yang and Liu now appeal. First,
Yang and Liu argue that the district court erred in denying
their renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial and that it erred when it allowed Price
Waterhouse ... More...   $0 (09-10-2002 - IL)

A jury awarded Susan Anderson compensatory and punitive damages against Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association and its president, Carl Merculief, based upon her claims of constructive retaliatory discharge, promissory estoppel, and defamation. The Association and Merculief challenge various aspects of the damages awards. We agree that the jury's award of lost earnings is excessive; however,... More...   $638000 (09-06-2002 - AK)

A school bus ran off the roadway and rolled over, injuring passenger Shawn Crouse. Shawn's mother sued the bus driver and the driver's employer, Laidlaw Transit, Inc.; a jury awarded Crouse $19,259 in compensatory damages and $3.5 million in punitive damages. The trial court remitted the punitive award to $500,000 and entered judgment for Crouse. Laidlaw appeals, challenging the punitive award ... More...   $519259 (08-30-2002 - AK)

This appeal arises from the Superior Court's denial of James Breiner's motion for attorneys' fees following a jury award in his favor in an age discrimination action against Daka, Inc. The trial court based its ruling on Superior Court Civil Rule 54 (d)(2)(B), which requires that a motion for fees be filed within fourteen days of entry of judgment. Breiner's principal contention on appeal is t... More...   $400000 (08-29-2002 - DC)

Plaintiff Nelson Robles claims that police officers Antonio DeBar-ros and James Rozar violated his state and federal constitutional rights by tying him to a metal pole in a deserted parking lot and abandoning him there for approximately 10 minutes. He seeks damages from the officers and from Prince George’s County, Maryland ("PGC") pursu-ant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as well as under the Mar... More...   $40000 (08-26-2002 - MD)

Catharina Costa is a trailblazer. She has worked most of her life in a male-dominated environment, driving trucks and operating heavy equipment. At Caesars, a well known casino in Las Vegas, she worked in a warehouse and, along with members of her bargaining unit, Teamsters Local 995, oper-ated the forklifts and pallet jacks to retrieve food and bever-age orders. Costa was the only woman in ... More...   $264373 (08-02-2002 - IL)

Plaintiff Philip J. McConkey brought this action alleging that in 1996 he was fraudulently induced by defendant Alexander & Alexander Services, Inc. (A&A), an international insurance brokerage company to leave his position with Ross & Company (Ross), an insurance brokerage company in Montclair, to accept a position at A&A as its Director of Insurance Services Practice for Greater New York. Seven m... More...   $6063000 (08-01-2002 - NJ)

We hold that vicarious liability may not be premised on the negligenc... More...   $0 (07-25-2002 - MI)

Bi-State Development Agency (Bi-State) appeals from a jury verdict and trial court judgment entered in favor of Bryant Moore, Jr. (Moore), by and through his next friend and father Bryant Moore, Sr., on his petition for damages for personal injuries alleging that Bi-State failed to discharge Moore from its bus in a safe place. We affirm the trial court judgment and dismiss Moore's cross-appeal.... More...   $0 (07-16-2002 - MO)

Respondent Gary E. Stallings and his wife brought a personal injury action against Amerace Corporation ("Amerace"),1 and on June 13, 1998, the jury awarded the Stallingses a verdict of $1 million,2 but found Stallings' employer 60% at fault. On June 22, 1998, Amerace filed a renewed motion for directed verdict, motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or in the alternative, motion for ... More...   $600000 (07-12-2002 - FL)

GE Capital Small Business Finance Corporation ("GE") appeals from the trial court's judgment in favor of Louis J. Rasse on Rasse's breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation claims and on GE's counterclaim for misrepresentation. Rasse cross-appeals. GE raises five points on appeal. GE's first point on appeal is that the trial court erred in submitting Rasse's claim for breach of contract ... More...   $975000 (07-09-2002 - MO)

The principal issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff, having accepted a remittitur with regard to one component of noneconomic damages in a negligence action, may nevertheless appeal the propriety of the trial court's rulings with regard to other components of noneconomic damages. We also address the issue raised in the defendant's cross appeal, namely, whether the trial court proper... More...   $375000 (07-09-2002 - CT)

Plaintiffs Tseghe Foote and The Guides, Ltd., d/b/a The Africa House (hereinafter Africa House) brought a civil rights action against defendants The Yarmouth Group Property Management, Inc., and Tabor Center Associates, L.P., alleging the defendants had violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and had intentionally interfered with Africa House's prospective business advantages in conjunction with the defendants... More...   $75317 (07-03-2002 - CO)

Wilma McGrane brought this action against her former employer, Younkers, alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34, and the Iowa Civil Rights Act, Chapter 216 of the Iowa Code. Following a week-long trial, a jury returned a verdict in favor of McGrane on the gender discriminati... More...   $0 (06-10-2002 - IA)

Finding reversible error in the trial court'... More...   $1921 (06-07-2002 - TX)

{2} On July 28, 1993, Aken had worked for Plains for nine years. He had been selected employee of the mo... More...   $300000 (06-05-2002 - NM)

Defendant Firstar Bank of Cedar Rapids, f/k/a Merchants National Bank of Cedar Rapids,[1] appeals, and plaintiff Carolyn Slocum cross-appeals, from a judgment for Slocum following trial on her action for conspiracy and conversion based on the repossession of her vehicle. The bank contends (1) it was entitled to a directed verdict on the conspiracy claim because it had no knowledge of any forgery ... More...   $186200 (05-31-2002 - IA)

The defendants William O’Boy, Sr., and his wife, Carmela B. O’Boy, appeal, and the plaintiff Florence Krondes1 cross appeals from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a jury trial, awarding damages to the plaintiff. On appeal, the defendants2 argue that the court improperly refused to set aside the verdict because the automatic stay pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362 voided ... More...   $0 (05-21-2002 - CT)

This civil action concerns claims for damages for alleged sexual assaults of preschool girls by their school bus driver. At trial, none of the girls was available as a witness because none remembered any of the alleged assaults. The principal issue on appeal is the admissibility, under the residual exception to the rule against hearsay, of the testimony of third party interviewers who spoke... More...   $526600 (05-21-2002 - CT)

Defendant... More...   $829648 (05-17-2002 - IL)

This appeal and cross-appeal follow a judgment in favor of a trucking company and its owners, and against the company’s assigned-risk liability insurer. We find the facts do not support a tort cause of action for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing and that the trial court erred when it failed to stay proceedings while the parties exhausted administrative remedies before th... More...   $0 (05-15-2002 - CA)

The defendant, Pace Membership Warehouse, Inc. (Pace), 1 has appealed the denial of its motion for a new trial, or alternatively, for remittitur, in this personal injury case in which a total judgment in excess of $300,000 was awarded to the plaintiff, Ralph Sweet (Sweet). On appeal, Pace argued that the trial justice erred by excluding certain evidence of Sweet's activities following the peri... More...   $0 (05-03-2002 - RI)