This case involves a dispute over the validity of and payment due under a contract between Cross Country Land Services (hereinafter "Cross Country") and PB Network Services (hereinafter "PBNS"). The payments sought under the contract were alleged to be due for work performed by Cross Country on a large fiber optic telecommunications project (hereinafter "the Project") owned by Level 3 Communi

Appellant DIRECTV, Inc. ("DIRECTV"), a satellite television service provider, commenced this action in the Western District of North Carolina against appellee John Rawlins. DIRECTV alleged that Rawlins utilized illegal devices to access DIRECTV television programming beyond the level of his paid subscription in violation of, as relevant here, the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (the

Alfred West sued IDT Corporation of Newark, New Jersey on a breach of contract and bad faith and fair dealing theories for failing to perform the terms of a handwritten contract drafted by IDT's Chairman while recruiting West, a telecommunications entrepreneur.

This appeal requires us to analyze the relation between section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley), 29 U.S.C. § 185, which authorizes federal suits to enforce collective bargaining agreements, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., the federal minimum-wage and maximumhour law. The plaintiffs represent a class (an "opt-in" class under 29 U.S.C. §

On June 30, 2005, AT&T Texas ("AT&T") initiated an arbitration proceeding before the Public Utility Commission of Texas ("PUC") regarding its interconnection agreement with Logix Communications, L.P. ("Logix"), seeking postinterconnection agreement dispute resolution regarding unbundled network element ("UNE") declassification by wire center.1 AT&T sought to establish that its method of deter

After Detecon, Inc., a small wireless telecommunications consulting company, discharged one of its officers, Larry Darveau, he brought this action, alleging that Detecon had not paid him overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ("FLSA" or the "Act"), 29 U.S.C. § 207 (2000). Fifteen days later, Detecon filed a fraud suit in state court against Darveau. Darveau then amended

Reisenfeld & Company appeals a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants Builders Square, Inc. and its parent company, K Mart Corporation (together "BSI"), in a breach of contract case brought under Ohio law. Reisenfeld argues on appeal that the district court erred in holding that Reisenfeld could not sue BSI for payment of a broker's commission on either a quasi-contract or a

BMC Resources, Inc. (BMC) appeals the district court's decision on summary judgment that Paymentech, L.P. (Paymentech) does not infringe asserted claims from two patents owned by BMC. The court determined that Paymentech had not infringed the claims because it performed some but not all of the steps of the asserted method claims. Because the record contains no basis to hold Paymentech vicario

Ernest Bustos appeals the trial court's granting of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.'s motion for summary judgment. Summary judgment was granted not only as to Schwabe's claims against Bustos but also as to Bustos's counterclaim against Schwabe. In addition to the summary judgment, Bustos appeals the denial of his motion to recuse the trial judge who granted summary judgment as to Schwabe's

Plaintiff-appellant NextG Networks of NY, Inc. ("NextG") appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Berman, J.), granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants-appellees (collectively, "the City").

Broadly speaking, this case concerns whether the City has impeded NextG's access to the New York City telecommunications market

Norvergence sold telecommunications equipment and services - or claimed to do so. After three apparently flourishing years it collapsed. The supposedly wondrous equipment it sold or rented, which it called a Merged Access Transport Intelligent Xchange (MATRIX) device, turned out to be a standard integrated-access box with none of the benefits that Norvergence had touted.

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The question presented concerns the appropriate application of the "frequency, regularity, proximity" criteria in asbestos product liability litigation. John I. Gregg, Jr. ("Mr. Gregg") died in March 1998. A year later, his son, Appellee John Andrew Gregg, as executor for his father's estate, filed a product liability complaint naming more than seventy defendants and alleging civil liabil

Justice Robinson for the Court. The plaintiff, Greensleeves, Inc., appeals to this Court from the entry of judgment in favor of the defendant, Eugene W. Friedrich.1 This case came before the Court for oral argument on October 1, 2007, pursuant to an order directing the parties to appear and show cause why the issues raised in this appeal should not be summarily decided. After considering

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a

�1 This case concerns a dispute over the price of fuel that convenience store owner Mike Batman purchased from fuel distributor Metro Petroleum, Inc. The price stated in the parties' written contract was one cent per gallon above the actual delivered cost price of fuel. Mr. Batman has contended the "cost price of fuel" includes a 1% discount Metro receives after delivery for paying the

After a bench trial, the circuit court concluded that Pamela and Steven Stouffer had a contract with T & L Janitorial, Inc. d/b/a ServiceMaster to clean and restore their home after a fire. The court further concluded that the Stouffers broke that contract when they refused to endorse a final check from their insurer, one of the Cincinnati Insurance Companies, to ServiceMaster. The Stouff

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a

The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA") appeals an order granting Lynn Jewell's claim for long-term disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., ("ERISA"), arguing that the district court should not have considered three exhibits from outside the administrative record. Mr. Jewell cross-appeals, seeking an award of a

Al Flowers sued Minneapolis City Council members Don Samuels and Paul Ostrow on a civil rights violation theory, 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming that defendants used their influence to get plaintiff's public-access TV show pulled off the air. The lawsuit sprang from comments made by a guest on Flowers' show in May 2005. Booker T. Hodges called Samuels a "house negro" and used a racial epithet to urge

DSU today announced that a jury has ruled in favor of the Company on all claims in a securities class action lawsuit filed by Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds against the Company in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland, California.

"We are extremely gratified by the jury's verdict, as we have always believed that the plaintiffs' cla

Stockholder class action securities fraud claims against Kevin Kalkhoven and three other executives from his former company in which plaintiffs claimed that JDS Uniphase mislead investors about the value of their business and selling their shares at artificially inflated prices. The fiber optics parts provider ran into financial problems in 2001 when business spending on telecommunications pro

For many years, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation, a North Carolina electric cooperative, had a pole-attachment agreement with Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership, a cable service provider, permitting Time Warner to attach its cable to Carteret-Craven Electric's utility poles. The initial fee in the 1997 renewal of the agreement provided that Time Warner p

Plaintiff Mabel Kay Thomas ("Thomas") appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Speedway SuperAmerica LLC ("Speedway"), which denied her claims for unpaid overtime wages under both federal and state law. The district court held that Thomas was a bona fide executive employee under 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1) and thus not entitled to overtime wages. The narrow issue on appe

In this limited civil action arising under 47 United States Code section 227, commonly known as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA" or the Act), we must determine whether a state or federal statute of limitations correctly applies, where plaintiff is asserting a private right of action for damages for violations of the Act. The matter was certified for transfer to this Co

Sprint Spectrum, L.P., does not dispute that it breached its contract with its former bill collector, Penncro Associates, Inc. Still, it offers two reasons why, in its view, the district court's judgment for Penncro in excess of $17 million should be reversed. First, Sprint argues that the parties' agreement precludes the sort of damages Penncro seeks. In their contract, the parties agreed to