Ocoee Utility District of Bradley and Polk Counties, Tennessee (“the Utility”) is a utility district that operates a water and sewer system in Bradley and Polk Counties. The Wildwood Company, Inc. (“Wildwood”) is a private fishing club with eleven memberstockholders. For decades, Wildwood owned about 120 acres of land in Bradley County, which included wetlands, a lake, and a nearby freshwater sp

On January 28, 2008, Mr. Dieser was admitted to St. Anthony’s for surgery to
remove a pancreatic pseudocyst. Two days later, Mr. Dieser developed a pressure wound
on his buttocks. The wound developed into a stage IV pressure ulcer extending from the
surface of Mr. Dieser’s skin to the bone. Surgery had to be performed to cut and remove
dead tissue from the wound. Mr. Dieser

Wentworth is a property-management company, and the
Wentworth Group is the parent entity. Michael Mendillo was the
president and chief executive officer of Wentworth and the owner
of the Wentworth Group. In May 2005, Mendillo hired Ramon to
serve as one of Wentworth’s regional vice presidents -- the only
one of Hispanic descent. In that role, Ramon managed high-rise

Crane Co. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. appeal from an adverse jury verdict in favor of Richard DeLisle in which the jury found that both appellants’ products containing asbestos were substantial contributing causes to appellee DeLisle’s mesothelioma and awarded substantial damages. Crane primarily argues that the court erred in not excluding expert causation testimony, in denying its motion for

On October 5, 2009, McGhee was employed as a press operator at Schreiber’s plant in
Clinton, Missouri. McGhee operated a large commercial printing press, known as a Vision
1 “Our standard of review requires that we view the facts in the light most favorable to the trial court’s verdict and accept as true evidence and inferences favorable

Dennis Vawter worked for a chemical plant owned by Velsicol Chemical Corporation for 37 ½ years before losing his job in December 2011, when the plant closed. In March 2012, when he was 59 years old, Mr. Vawter applied for a general operator position at a plant owned by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (“du
Pont”). Out of 421 who applied for the job, Mr. Vawter was among the 140 applica

On the morning of November 6, 2010, Larry Bachar was involved in an accident at the intersection of Industrial Drive and Baxter Lane in Franklin County, Tennessee. Mr. Bachar filed suit against Mike Partin and Mike Partin Trucking on July 26, 2011, alleging that Mike Partin, while driving a truck owned by Mike Partin Trucking, (hereinafter collectively “Mr. Partin”) failed to stop in obedience to

St. Louis, MO - Johnson & Johnson Loses Another Baby Powder Case

Gloria Ristesund, age 61, sued Johnson and Johnson on a products liability theory claiming that the Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products that she purchased and used for years was defective and unreasonably dangerous and caused her to develop ovarian cancer.

Ms. Ristesund, 62, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer i

In May, 2010, Robert L. Mills (Bob Mills), acting as the "President/Member" of BMB, executed a purchase agreement for the purchase of a Cessna Model 560XL aircraft from Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, for a total purchase price of $10,555,825. The purchase agreement states that the "Scheduled Delivery Month Fly-Away Factory . . . Wichita, Kansas, is July 2010." On July 1, 2010, BMB ten

In this Engle-progeny case,1 Appellant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
challenges the trial court’s Final Judgment for Resolution Funds and argues that
because Appellee, Dianne Webb, as personal representative of the estate of her
father, James Cayce Horner, was not entitled to collect the money damages awarded
to her following the appeal of the initial final judgment, the part

This Superior Court contract action stems from
the sale by defendant Simply Surgical, LLC (Simply Surgical) to
plaintiff New England Precision Grinding, Inc. (NEPG) of medical
device parts manufactured by defendant Iscon Surgicals, Ltd.
(Iscon). All three parties appeal from an amended judgment
entered on January 8, 2013, in favor of Simply Surgical; Iscon
also appea

In 1995, our legislature enacted section 24-3-430 of the South Carolina Code (2007) to authorize the expansion of the Prison Industries program into the private sector. This expansion allowed qualified private entities to use inmate labor but required the wages for participating inmates to be no less than "the prevailing wage for work of [a] similar nature in the private sector." Act No. 7, 1995

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

The conflict issue in this case is whether an insured is entitled to a
determination of liability and the full extent of his or her damages by first bringing
an uninsured/underinsured motorist (UM) action before litigating a first-party bad
faith cause of action under section 624.155, Florida Statutes (2007). The related
issues we address are whether that determination of dam

Tobacco defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (“RJ Reynolds”), Philip Morris USA Inc. (“Philip Morris”), Lorillard Tobacco Company (“Lorillard”),1 and Liggett Group LLC (“Liggett”), appeal a multi-million dollar final judgment. They raise several issues common to all and some individually.

They jointly argue the trial court erred in denying their motions for new trial based upon th

In 2008, oil and gas companies descended on east Texas and Louisiana seeking to acquire
leases to exploit the Haynesville Shale formation, which they viewed as having enormous
potential. The atmosphere created by these companies was described as “unreal,” “a land rush,”
and comparable to a gold rush. David Deffenbaugh, Petrohawk Properties, L.P.’s, vice president
of land—midc

This is an action for damages resulting from an alleged battery perpetrated upon the plaintiff by the defendant, who was five years and nine months of age at the time of the occurrence. The judgment of the superior court of Pierce county, in favor of the defendant, was reviewed by this court in Garratt v. Dailey, 46 Wash.2d 197, 279 P.2d 1091. Reference is hereby made to that opinion for the mater

We granted the State's request for a common law writ of certiorari to review a pretrial circuit court order in this capital retrial proceeding. We affirm the circuit court's order. Respondent's first capital conviction and sentence were reversed on appeal because he was denied his constitutional right to represent himself at trial. State v. Barnes, 407 S.C. 27, 753 S.E.2d 545 (2014); see Farett

From 1962 until his retirement in 2003, Winston Carrol Payne was employed by CSX Transportation, Inc. (the “Defendant”) as a switchman, switch foreman, and brakeman in the railroad transportation department. Less than three years after his retirement, Mr. Payne was diagnosed with lung cancer. In 2007, he sued the Defendant under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51–60 (

Washington, D.C. - Exonerated defendant wrongfully convicted of rape and murder settles for $16.65 million

Donald E. Gates sued the District of Columbia, John Harlow, Norman Brooks and Ronald S. Taylor on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that he was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a college student in 1981 and sentenced to life in prison for a c

On September 8, 2010, Dr. Thomas A. Staner, a boardcertified neurosurgeon and neurologist, performed a lumbar laminectomy on Wilfred at Brookwood Medical Center. Wilfred was released from the hospital on Friday, September 10, 2010. On the evening of Saturday, September 11, 2010, Wilfred was at home lying in bed. According to Wilfred, when he rolled over and sat up on the side of the bed, he sudd

Julie Freeman, individually and on behalf of 5,314 similarly situated car buyers, filed a lawsuit against J.L.H. Investments, LP, a/k/a Hendrick Honda of Easley ("Hendrick"), seeking damages under the South Carolina Dealers Act1 (the "Dealers Act") on the ground that Hendrick "unfairly" and "arbitrarily" charged all of its customers "closing fees"2 that were not calculated to reimburse Hendrick

This is an appeal from the district court’s denial, upon remand, of Appellant’s Memorandum of Attorney Fees and Costs. Appellant argues that the district court erred in ruling
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that the court did not have jurisdiction to award fees and costs on remand. We agree with appellant and reverse.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In prior proceedings, this Court reversed the district c

Given the narrow focus of the legal underpinning for the Murphy conservatorship, we do not need to relate the evidence at trial. We draw some of the following facts from our opinion in Christopher B.’s appeal from the first effort to establish a conservatorship over his person and estate. (Conservatorship of Christopher B. (Mar. 6, 2014, C073478) [nonpub. opn.].)
In September 2003, Christo

The principal issue in this residential-construction dispute concerns whether the
plaintiff homeowner was entitled to recover “reasonable and necessary costs of repair” that included
out-of-pocket costs paid to a structural engineer to identify construction defects and craft solutions.
On this record, we conclude that she was not.
The plaintiff homeowner, Jessica Nicole W. Stafford