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Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant pursuant to Title IX, alleging that defendant failed to protect them from stalking and sexual harassment by a fellow student by inadequately responding to their complaints. The district court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, ...

Tagged with: Failure to Adequately Investigate Protection Against Stalking and Harassment Title IX

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of their false-light claim. Defendants ran a news segment about a man accused of tricking women into having sex with him on camera. The segment included a clip of plaintiff describing how the same man swindled ...

Tagged with: Actual Malice False-Light Defamation News Story

Defendants appealed from the judgment entered in favor of plaintiffs on their breach-of-express-warranty claim. Plaintiff Jeffrey Klingenberg suffered an injury after falling from a ladder designed and sold by defendants; plaintiffs alleged that the weight label on the ladder created ...

Tagged with: Breach of Express Warranty Design Defect product liability

Plaintiffs appealed the judgment imposing a sanction or fee to be paid to defendant’s counsel. On appeal, plaintiffs argued that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to order sanctions. Where neither defendant’s motion for sanctions nor any other matters in the ...

Tagged with: Sanction Award Voluntary Dismissal of Case

Plaintiff appealed the adverse summary judgment granted in her action filed on behalf of decedent seeking equitable garnishment against a claims-based, professional-liability insurance policy issued by defendant. The trial court ruled that the policy did not afford coverage to plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Equitable Garnishment against Insurance Legal malpractice

Where a plaintiff who suffered an eye injury while working for his railway employer challenged an adverse verdict on retaliation claims brought under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, the jury instructions misstated the “honestly held belief” defense in the context ...

Tagged with: FRSA jury instructions Retaliation

Where the driver of a school bus, who was injured in an accident with a Bi-State bus, challenged the remittitur of her personal-injury award from $1.8 million to $420,606, the judgment is reversed and remanded because a statute mandating that ...

Tagged with: Personal-Injury Award Remittitur

Where an oil producer challenged a jury verdict for a independent trucking contractor who alleged that the oil producer had tortuously interfered with the business relationship between the contractor and his best customer, the evidence was sufficient to support the ...

Tagged with: Damages Sufficiency Of Evidence tortious interference

Where plaintiffs sued a city housing authority and its director and insurer after a woman and her four children died from smoke inhalation in an apartment kitchen fire, summary judgment for the defendants is affirmed because there was insufficient evidence ...

Tagged with: Causation Fire Deaths premises liability

Plaintiff appealed from the summary-judgment dismissal of his complaint in which he alleged that, while an inmate in county jail, an official made plaintiff wear shoes too small for his feet. Plaintiff alleged that the shoes caused a blister that ...

Tagged with: County Jail Inappropriate Footwear personal injury

Plaintiff filed suit against the United States for negligent supervision and training, alleging that he suffered emotional and physical distress after the Department of Veterans Affairs initially erroneously determined that his corneal ulcerations were not connected to plaintiff’s Army service. ...

Tagged with: Emotional and Physical Distress Negligent Supervision and Training Service-Connected Disability