After an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hellerstein, J.), this court AFFIRMED the district court s judgment denying Appellant s motion to intervene, and ordered the Appellant and her attorney to show cause why they should not be ...   MORE>>

Appeal from a post-judgment order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Baer, J.), barring defendant-appellant from acting as an officer or director of a public company for ten years, pursuant to section 21(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. ...   MORE>>

Appeal by the City of New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta from the December 8, 2011, order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Nicholas G. Garaufis, District Judge), issuing an injunction against the City with respe...   MORE>>

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff PHL Variable Insurance Company ("PHL") in its equitable action for rescission of a life insurance policy and special damages incident to the rescission of that policy. See PHL Variable Ins. Co. v. P. Bowie 2008 Irrevocable Trus...   MORE>>

This is a class-action lawsuit alleging racial resegregation in the Nashville public school system. In July 2008, the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education (the Board) adopted a new studentassignment plan generally referred to as the Rezoning Plan. The Rezoning Plan modified the student-a...   MORE>>

Appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Suddaby, J.) finding that defendant-appellant SEFCU violated the Bankruptcy Code s automatic stay provision, 11 U.S.C. 362, and remanding to the Bankruptcy Court (Littlefield, J.) for a deter...   MORE>>

After winning a multi-million dollar judgment against Zee Company in a North Carolina state court, GE Betz discovered that Zee had tied up virtually all of its assets in a credit facility agreement with BMO Harris Bank before the entry of final judgment. As a result, GE Betz registered the North Car...   MORE>>

After a jury verdict of infringement with an award of damages in favor of Versata Software, Inc., Versata Development Group, Inc., and Versata Computer Industry Solutions, Inc. (collectively Versata ), SAP America, Inc. and SAP AG (collectively SAP ) appeal. Ultimately, the trial court fou...   MORE>>

Stephanie Vino Figueroa, widow of Manny Figueroa and personal representative of his estate, filed a petition under the Vaccine Act seeking compensation for vaccinerelated injuries suffered by Mr. Figueroa. See National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755, codifie...   MORE>>

Virginia s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) grants Virginia citizens access to all public records, but grants no such right to non-Virginians. Petitioners McBurney and Hurlbert, citizens of States other than Virginia, filed records requests under the Act. After each petitioner s request was den...   MORE>>