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 janitor at mental health clinic who was seized by the clinic’s private police department at his residence, interrogated and allegedly coerced into confessing to lighting matches at the clinic could only pursue a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Frederick P. Stamp U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a lesbian employee was fired by the same person who had hired her approximately eight months earlier, and the person who fired her had ample reason to believe that she had been dishonest in the course of her employment, ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Norman K. Moon 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

An employer lost its motion to dismiss as its former employee adequately alleged she exhausted administrative remedies. Although she had not received her right-to-sue letter, more than 180 days had elapsed after she filed her charge of discrimination. Background Alice ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A case involving an allegedly defective hip implant is returning to state court after the court held that certain defendants were not fraudulently joined. Because the presence of those defendants destroyed diversity jurisdiction, the court returned the case to state ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

A patent owner who brought a large number of infringement claims against a manufacturer was not permitted to amend its complaint to assert new claims after the manufacturer successfully challenged the claims before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

An insurance company was not required to cover the loss of a yacht that sank after the owner failed to winterize it properly in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions because the insurance policy covering the yacht explicitly excluded coverage for ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the plaintiff was admitted to a medical center pursuant to an emergency custody order after she was found in the middle of a suicide attempt and she was physically and medically restrained so a doctor could obtain blood and ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

The defendants, who are associated with the white-supremacist Rise Above Movement, were indicted for knowingly traveling in interstate commerce to incite a riot; promoting and carrying on a riot; and committing acts of violence and encouraging others to do the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District