A Sixth Circuit panel reversed lower courts Wednesday and held that a Michigan property tax foreclosure transfer was preferential under the Bankruptcy Code because the county treasurer would receive a 5% sales commission at a tax sale...
Carrie Reinhardt v. Weston Prince
A federal judge in Indiana ruled that Indiana University did not act in bad faith when it failed to preserve a student’s anonymous sexual assault kit, email accounts, and building access logs, denying the student’s motion for sanctions.
SALAHUDDIN THOMPSON v. THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY et al
A federal judge denied Sony’s request for dispositive sanctions in a contract dispute with ESC-Toy, ruling that Sony failed to prove a former executive’s advice constituted 'transactional taint' warranting dismissal.
ESC-Toy Ltd. v. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC et al
The Ninth Circuit reversed a federal district court’s grant of habeas relief that had vacated Mark Alan Bradford’s 1988 murder conviction and death sentence, holding that the California Supreme Court’s rejection of his claims was not...
Mark Bradford v. Ron Broomfield
WASHINGTON (LN) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act’s safety exception permits states to hear negligent-hiring claims against transportation brokers, resolving a circuit split...
Shawn Montgomery, Petitioner v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Van Keulen ruled that HP Inc. failed to demonstrate specific injury from public disclosure, rejecting overbroad sealing requests in Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. v. HP Inc. and ordering...
Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. v. HP Inc.
A change in state supreme court precedent requiring proof of intent to kill "without lawful justification" has forced the reversal of a Cook County man’s conviction for shooting a teenage girl during a street fight.
People v. Thompson
Illinois citizens cannot sue Amazon and Pindrop under the state’s biometric privacy law for voiceprint authentication services used on calls routed through Virginia servers.
Christopher McGovern v. Amazon Web Services Inc
A federal judge in West Virginia ruled that a jury cannot determine front pay in a Family and Medical Leave Act case, but allowed a plaintiff’s expert to present calculations for a tax offset to ensure the equitable remedy is not...
Pack v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
A federal judge held Cook County liable under Monell for deliberately ignoring the obvious risk that its property tax sale system would strip homeowners of equity without compensation, violating the Fifth and Eighth Amendments.
MICHELLE KIDD and GOYCE H. RATES, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT and PALENQUE LSNA individually, Plaintiffs, v. MARIA PAPPAS, in her capacity as Treasurer of Cook County, Illinois and Trustee of the Indemnity Fund, and COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Defendants.
A Delaware Chancery Court ruling Thursday held that a 26.4% stockholder in Footprint International Holdco, Inc. did not exercise transaction-specific control over the company’s board, dismissing a breach of fiduciary duty claim against...
Eric Douglas Guilbeau v. Footprint International Holdco, Inc.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss a RICO fraud suit against a Florida oilman, ruling that the court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant under the statute’s nationwide service of process...
Xlink Resource Group, LLC v. Expo Petroleum Oil and Gas, LLC, et al.
Four Supreme Court justices have raised serious constitutional questions about nitrogen hypoxia executions, with a scheduled June 11 Alabama execution set to give the court its next opportunity to intervene.
Will the Supreme Court end nitrogen gas executions?
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that text messages and emails stored on the private cell phones and email accounts of individual members of a state wildlife commission do not qualify as public records subject to disclosure under the...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition, Inc. v. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission