Appellant, Wen Chyu Liu, also known as David W. Liou ( Liou ), challenges his conviction for conspiracy to steal trade secrets and perjury. The principal issue on appeal concerns the propriety of the court s ruling excluding the testimony of defendant s engineering expert. We conclude that t...   MORE>>

Katherine Lees began her freshman year at Carthage College in the fall of 2008. On September 21, 2008, she was sexually assaulted in her dorm room by two men she believed to be Carthage students. Lees withdrew from Carthage after the attack and eventually brought this negligence action against the c...   MORE>>

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware finding that Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. and Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (collectively, Fairchild ) willfully infringed several valid patents belonging to Power Integ...   MORE>>

Hamid Hayat, born in California in September 1983 and raised largely in Pakistan, was convicted of providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2339A, and of making false statements to government officials, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. The terrorism statute criminaliz...   MORE>>

Several state law questions arise in this appeal, and three federal law questions, whether expert testimony should have been excluded under Daubert, whether disallowance of a peremptory challenge was Batson error and if so whether it was harmless, and whether Alaska English Rule attorneys fee ...   MORE>>

Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Sharpe, J.), upholding the Commissioner s determination that plaintiff-appellant was not disabled. We hold that the ALJ erred in her treatment of plaintiff s claim that he suffered from fibromyalgia by ...   MORE>>

Officer Wheetley pulled over respondent Harris for a routine traffic stop. Observing Harris s nervousness and an open beer can, Wheetley sought consent to search Harris s truck. When Harris refused, Wheetley executed a sniff test with his trained narcotics dog, Aldo. The dog alerted at the driver s-...   MORE>>

In this products liability action, Linda Secrest appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Keenan, J.) granting summary judgment on Secrest s claim that Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. failed to issue adequate warnings regarding the risks ass...   MORE>>

In November 1999, Wyeth L.L.C. ( Wyeth ) entered into a nationwide class action settlement agreement (the Settlement Agreement ) with the users of certain diet drugs linked to various health problems. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania certified the ...   MORE>>

This case is before the Court on a petition for redetermination of two separate deficiencies. Respondent determined that the estate is liable for (1) a $9,818,040 estate tax deficiency and a $2,817,294 section 6662 penalty and (2) a $3,784,333 gift tax deficiency and a $722,573 section 6662 penalt...   MORE>>