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0 | 404,998 | 2 | 5 | 51 The Insurance Company raises several allegations of error in the trial court's evidentiary rulings 27 and jury instructions. We have reviewed those claims, and, in light of our prior rulings, conclude that any error committed must be deemed harmless. 52 | Insurance Company's Assertions of Trial Error. |
1 | 173,333 | 1 | 7 | Petitioners also argue that the FEIS, in addressing the effects of the past mining operations, erroneously treated the airborne radiation already being emitted from the debris as naturally occurring rather than as man-made background radiation. Even if it did so, the FEIS still adequately considered the cumulative impa... | Whether the NRC erred in characterizing the airborne radiation emitted from the prior conventional mining operation as background radiation |
2 | 204,752 | 2 | 2 | The Park District challenges the judgment against it for breach of contract even though damages were assessed at a nominal $1. The district court held that Commissioner Burroughs's casual remarkYou're still there, aren't you? That's all you need to do.created an implied-in-fact contract requiring the Park District to... | The Park District's Cross-Appeal on the Contract Claim |
3 | 792,413 | 3 | 2 | 50 In Valenti, 987 F.2d at 715, this Circuit held that a dual-docketing system, or sealed docket, in the Middle District of Florida violated the press and public's First Amendment right of access to criminal proceedings, and declared it facially unconstitutional. In striking down that system, we recognized that public ... | Constitutionality of Secret Docketing Procedures in Ochoa-Vasquez |
4 | 150,472 | 3 | 1 | First, the CFRA prohibits state contractors and lobbyists from making campaign contributions to candidates for state office. See Conn. Gen.Stat. §§ 9-610(g), 9-612(g)(2)(A)-(B). The CFRA's ban on contractor contributions applies to any person, business entity or nonprofit organization that enters into a state contract.... | Contribution Bans |
5 | 4,541,110 | 3 | 1 | cation, the pumping system receiving information from a user, the pumping system comprising: a pump; a motor coupled to the pump; a control system operating as a master controller, the control system including an automation sys- tem, the control system including a remote Case: 19-1821 Document: 55 Page: 3 Filed: 06/12/... | A pumping system for at least one aquatic appli- |
6 | 3,185,495 | 1 | 3 | Lareka Laws challenges the district court’s denial of her motion for a judgment of acquittal. She asserts that the government’s evidence was insufficient to establish who in fact owned the real estate identified on the tax returns, or that the properties could not properly qualify for the homebuyer tax credit. She also... | Lareka Laws |
7 | 476,864 | 1 | 3 | 14 Because of the deafening congressional silence regarding retrospective application, this interpretive conflict is controlled by the characterizations attributed to the CMPL. It appears that Congress generally intended the CMPL to be a procedural, civil alternative to ameliorate the pattern of underenforcement of cri... | Unreasonable Characterization of the CMPL for Retroactivity Purposes |
8 | 318,311 | 1 | 2 | 6 The issue before this court is limited to the question whether the CCC, a government agency, can obtain damages for an unperformed oral contract for carriage. We believe that both the relevant statutes and regulations require that government contracts such as the charter agreement here be written in order to be enfor... | the enforceability of the oral contract by the government |
9 | 2,996,064 | 2 | 1 | Barlow first argues that the district court erred in denying his motion for discovery because he produced sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation of his claim that the DEA agents had engaged in racial profiling. We review the denial of a motion for discovery in a criminal case for abuse of discretion. Unit... | Selective Enforcement Claim |
10 | 422,278 | 1 | 4 | 44 The district court denied Saturn's request for prejudgment interest observing that prejudgment interest under 35 U.S.C. § 284 (1976) was to be awarded in the discretion of the court and that the general rule was that interest should be awarded from the date damages are determined. We need not determine whether the d... | Saturn's Appeal |
11 | 217,410 | 3 | 2 | Moore claims he was discharged in violation of Title VII because Vital was motivated by racial and sexual discrimination in discharging him. The district court correctly held that Moore could not bring these claims because he had not included them in his EEOC charge. Generally, a plaintiff may not bring claims under Ti... | Title VII Discriminatory Discharge Claims |
12 | 1,251,515 | 3 | 2 | Although the district court acknowledged that the record does not reflect the underlying facts and circumstances on which the DSS's determination was based, it found that this deficiency in the record was largely due to Nyari's failure to appear at the DSS hearing in 1989. The court construed Nyari's failure to pursue ... | Nyari's Failure To Appear at the Social Services Hearing |
13 | 815,532 | 3 | 1 | The district court excluded all of Mr. Arms’s testimony on the ground that his ignition theory did not satisfy the minimum indicia of reliability required by Daubert. We agree with the district court’s holding with regards to Mr. Arms’s testimony about the ignition sequence that started the fire. However, our inquiry 6... | Testimony of Mr. Arms |
14 | 536,108 | 3 | 5 | 23 Id. See Folks v. Secretary of Health & Human Servs., 825 F.2d 1259, 1261 (8th Cir.1987). In the present case, the ALJ failed to consider these factors in analyzing appellant's claim. 24 The ALJ suggests that appellant's complaints were disregarded because appellant failed to establish a physical impairment. The ALJ ... | functional restrictions. |
15 | 484,327 | 2 | 2 | 17 Despite the fact that [t]he Feres doctrine cannot be reduced to a few bright-line rules and that each case must be examined in light of the [Federal Tort Claims Act] as it has been construed, Shearer, 105 S.Ct. at 3043, this circuit has adopted a three-part test for determining whether the activity of a serviceman i... | Incident to Service |
16 | 718,690 | 2 | 1 | 29 Section 406(a) states in relevant part that: 30 [W]here the person named in the copyright notice on copies ... publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner is not the owner of the copyright, ... any person who innocently begins an undertaking that infringes the copyright has a complete defense to any act... | Reliance on an Authorized Copy |
17 | 765,768 | 4 | 1 | 23 The crux of Hollister's claim is that the shirt that she wore was defective because it was constructed of a fabric that was too highly flammable to be safe. In other words, Hollister argues that the dangerousness of the shirt is attributable to the intentional design decisions of the manufacturer. See Prentis v. Yal... | The elements of a design-defect case under Michigan law |
18 | 3,219,057 | 2 | 3 | The IRS produced the relevant portions of Agent Sharma’s activity record, a document similar to a time sheet, with a single entry on one page redacted. The IRS explained that the deleted entry reflected that Agent Sharma “communicated with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel with respect to a specific issue in the examinat... | The Activity Record |
19 | 3,064,166 | 1 | 2 | On appeal, Dell argues that the district court erred by failing to “both determine the scope of [his] criminal activity . . . and to specify the amount of crack cocaine attributable to . . . Dell in the entire case.” Dell argues that the evidence indicates that the “scope” of his criminal activity was limited to the dr... | Dell |
20 | 2,770,245 | 3 | 2 | puted Although a court would not necessarily be required to reach the patent law issues that underlie the causes of action alleged by NeuroRepair, at least one patent law issue is actually disputed by the parties. NeuroRepair claims Defendants’ wrongdoing hindered its ability to timely obtain patents of the same scope ... | At least one patent law issue is actually dis- |
21 | 377,034 | 1 | 2 | 13 Thiokol argues that the district court was without authority to determine whether Harper had substantially complied with the collective bargaining agreement since this is a claim to be evaluated by an arbitrator. Thiokol contends, and the district court agreed, that Harper had not made a timely request for an extens... | Substantial Compliance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement |
22 | 198,532 | 2 | 2 | 31 I.V. Services argues alternatively that equitable tolling is required because IDM or Reliastar allegedly refused repeated requests to forward a copy of the Plan, thereby concealing its terms. This argument need not detain us long. The magistrate found that what the record shows, however, is that [I.V. Services] made... | Did IDM or Reliastar Conceal the Terms of the Plan? |
23 | 2,966,594 | 5 | 3 | borrower or any of their employees, while moving property to or from a covered auto. 3. Anyone liable for the conduct of an insured described above is an insured but only to the extent of that liability. However, the owner or anyone else from whom you hire or borrow a covered auto is an insured only if that auto is a t... | Anyone other than your employees, a lessee or |
24 | 18,498 | 2 | 3 | 20 Village seeks a declaratory judgment stating that HUD acted arbitrarily and capriciously by (1) refusing to consider Village's rent increase request; (2) declaring Village in default and subsequently foreclosing on Mockingbird because Village failed to adequately maintain the property; and (3) refusing to review its... | Village's Request for a Declaratory Judgment |
25 | 415,604 | 3 | 2 | 16 The district court admitted Smith's armed robbery conviction because, as for Lipscomb's conviction, the desperate person who would commit an armed robbery would also lie under oath. 16 The court did not expressly explain why Little's robbery conviction or Green's accessory after the fact to manslaughter conviction w... | Smith, Green, and Little |
26 | 2,979,166 | 5 | 1 | Montgomery’s complete argument concerning probable cause for the search warrant issued for 1117 Plum Run Road is contained in one short paragraph of his appellate brief: . . . concerning the 1117 Plum Run Road address, the warrant itself provided for the search of 1197 Plum Run Road. Three of the first four houses on P... | 1117 Plum Run Road |
27 | 2,655,125 | 2 | 3 | Amzak also appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees on its negligence claim. Under Louisiana law, to succeed on a negligence claim, a plaintiff must prove: (1) the had a duty to conform his or her conduct to a specific standard of care (the duty element); (2) the defendant failed to ... | Amzak’s Negligence Claim |
28 | 557,349 | 2 | 1 | 15 motion to sever. 16 Defendants-appellants (collectively Mason County) argue that the district court erred in denying their motion to sever. This argument is based on two theories. First, they contend that the requirements for permissive joinder were not met. Second, they maintain that even if the requirements for pe... | Whether the district court erred in denying defendants' |
29 | 751,894 | 1 | 12 | 89 The district court sentenced Sehorn to a 20-year mandatory sentence on Count Two, which charged aiding and abetting a firearms crime under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). This statute provides that [i]n the case of his second or subsequent conviction under this subsection, such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for twen... | Was Sehorn properly sentenced? |
30 | 3,066,758 | 3 | 2 | Plaintiffs allege that the Program has resulted in “a series of reports documenting in detail the information obtained from [the NYPD’s] surveillance of New Jersey Muslim communities.” Id. ¶ 5. These “includ[e] a report focusing on the Muslim community in Newark” (the “Newark report”), id.; “more than twenty precinct-l... | Reports and Informational Databases |
31 | 3,065,770 | 3 | 1 | At a status conference, Veterans sought to compel discovery of suicide incident briefs — reports prepared by the VA following the suicide or attempted suicide of a veteran under VA care. The VA represented that there are 15,000 suicide incident briefs that would be subject to extensive redaction and argued that the red... | Suicide Incident Briefs |
32 | 2,979,541 | 4 | 1 | Defendants first argue that guaranty section 5(b)(i), supra, which states that a guarantor’s obligations are not affected in the event of a bankruptcy, is ambiguous or conflicts with other provisions. Defendants say that the section is ambiguous because it could be interpreted to mean that defendants, as guarantors, ha... | Guaranty Ambiguity |
33 | 39,521 | 2 | 1 | 54 We have no authority to grant habeas corpus relief simply because we conclude, in our independent judgment, that a state supreme court's application of [federal law] is erroneous or incorrect. Martinez v. Dretke, 404 F.3d 878, 884 (5th Cir.2005) (quoting Neal v. Puckett, 286 F.3d 230, 236 (5th Cir.2002) (en banc)). ... | The AEDPA Standard of Review |
34 | 511,547 | 4 | 3 | 67 Did Hall and the Board fall into that narrow band of fragile relationships requiring for job security loyalty at the expense of unfettered speech? Gonzalez I, 712 F.2d at 150. The district court rightly concluded that they did, and therefore that the government's interest in the effective functioning of its enterpri... | Application to Present Case |
35 | 153,893 | 2 | 1 | Meyers contends that the district court erred in failing to balance his interests in his religion with governmental interests as required by the First Amendment and the RFRA; in refusing to recognize his interpretation of his own religion; and in refusing to give his beliefs the status of religion.
Meyers asserts that ... | Religious Freedom Defense |
36 | 776,467 | 2 | 2 | 12 Trompeter was a nationally-recognized collector of rare coins. Trompeter also had other valuable collections including art, artifacts, firearms, gems, jewelry, and music recordings. There is considerable dispute, and much ambiguity in the record, about the exact nature and valuation of those holdings, but the Estate... | Omitted Assets |
37 | 2,968,817 | 3 | 3 | Parks also says that she complained about a teleconference presentation by Dr. Kaplan to Coventry Health Care in February of 2006. Part of the presentation was meant to promote Kadian as being less prone to diversion (i.e., less prone to be diverted to the black market) than other opioid drugs. J.A. 262. Notably, Parks... | coventry presentation |
38 | 3,011,431 | 2 | 4 | The plaintiffs further contend that since they have sought class certification, see supra note 1, they should be treated as a class pending the court's determination on that issue. Some courts have uncritically treated a group as a collective when a would-be class has petitioned for certification. See, e.g., Hinckley v... | Class Certification Issues |
39 | 172,648 | 2 | 2 | We begin by detailing the history of the statute and regulations at issue in this case. The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 established the structure of current immigration laws, Pub.L. No. 82-414, 66 Stat. 163 (March 27, 1952) (codified at 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101-1537 (1952)). As part of an amendment of the immigration laws in 1... | Background of Immigration Laws |
40 | 74,940 | 3 | 2 | The doctrine of dual or double criminality is distinct from the doctrine of specialty.24 While specialty focuses on the conduct prosecuted, [d]ouble criminality refers to the characterization of the relator's criminal conduct insofar as it constitutes an offense under the law of the respective states .... no state shal... | Dual or Double Criminality |
41 | 485,224 | 2 | 3 | 37 The IBEW's final argument is that on remand it proffered a sufficient showing of harm to defeat plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. We disagree. The District Court was correct in concluding that the IBEW failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact because the harm asserted by the IBEW in its submissions wa... | The IBEW's Assertion of Harm |
42 | 2,754,954 | 2 | 1 | New York, NY, and Washington, DC. For Appellants Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc. and Shell Oil Company: Anthony M. Mansfield and Joshua L. Shapiro, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY, and Washington, DC. For Plaintiff-Appellee U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission: MELISSA CHIANG (Jonathan L. Marcus... | White, on the brief), Vinson & Elkins LLP, |
43 | 771,716 | 1 | 3 | 20 We measure federal trademark infringement, 15 U.S.C. S 1114, and federal unfair competition, 15 U.S.C. S 1125(a)(1)(A), by identical standards. See A&H III, 166 F.3d at 202. 5 To prove either form of Lanham Act violation, a plaintiff must demonstrate that (1) it has a valid and legally protectable mark; (2) it owns ... | The Direct Confusion Claim |
44 | 1,449,914 | 2 | 4 | On cross-appeal, Independent Living challenges the district court's August 27, 2008 order modifying its August 18, 2008 order granting Independent Living's motion for a preliminary injunction. Independent Living principally argues that, in modifying the earlier order to eliminate its retroactive effect, the district co... | Sovereign Immunity and the Order Modifying the Injunction |
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The dataset compiles sections with generic or specific headings covering three courts, SCOTUS and two lower courts (Federal Appellate and State Supreme) with a SCOTUS part manually annotated with these two types of titles.
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Malek Yaich, Nicolas Hernandez. Improving Accessibility of SCOTUS Opinions: A Benchmark Study and a New Dataset for Generic Heading Prediction and Specific Heading Generation. The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025), Jan 2025, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ⟨hal-04839546⟩
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