Where a company hired an outside firm to create a commercial website and the outside firm used an unlicensed, copyrighted photo to accompany an article posted on one of the webpages, both the company and the owner of the outside ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

The government established the defendant, who served as president and chief scientific officer of a company he founded, conspired to defraud the United States and aided and abetted the submission of false statements to obtain government funds. Background On Feb. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

The city lost its bid to dismiss a suit that alleges city officials are fining a church’s landlord for allowing the church to meet for Sunday services in a building zoned as a “limited industrial district,” although secular gatherings of ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

To avoid concluding that two preemption provisions in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA, are redundant, the court, for the first time, joined other district courts in holding that one preemption provision applied to state statutory claims and the ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a contractor who provided mail deliveries for the U.S. Postal Service was repeatedly sexually harassed, assaulted and battered by a USPS employee, the U.S. was shielded from liability by sovereign immunity and could not be held liable for the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where an independent insurance agent sold insurance policies under a contract with an insurance company and unknown third parties used the agent’s license to process applications with the insurance company, ultimately leading to financial losses for the agent, the agent ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A white female over the age of 60 who was demoted to assistant principal of a middle school after serving as a high school principal for three years and was replaced by a black male under the age of 40 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A dispute between two companies over the use of the name “Cabinet Savers” will proceed to discovery after the court rejected the plaintiff’s early motion to win the suit. The plaintiff had argued that its claim was essentially undisputed, but ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

A CFO who was terminated five months after filing a complaint with the Office of State Inspector General alleging financial wrongdoing by the executive director could proceed on his claims of retaliatory discharge, but he failed to show that any ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Clarence Whitaker alleged that his wife’s 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe was defective because a critical wiring harness had become disconnected. Mrs. Whitaker was found dead between her car and the side of her house. Police found that the vehicle was ...

Tagged with: Defense Verdict Judge Michael F. Urbanski Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District