United States v. Lanzon, 639 F.3d 1293 (11th Cir. 2011): On September 8, 2005, Detective George Clifton, a member of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Sexual Crimes Bureau, signed online using the undercover persona "Tom." Detective Clifton created an AOL profile for "Tom" that described him as a male living with his girlfriend and hi ...

ISystems v. Spark Networks, Ltd., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6197 (5th Cir. Mar. 21, 2012): Spark Networks, the owner of the "jdate.com" web domain, won the rights to ISystems's "jdate.net" domain name in arbitration. ISystems then brought suit against Spark Networks ... for civil damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio ...

H-D Michigan, LLC v. Hellenic Duty Free Shops S.A., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14277 (E.D. Wis. Feb. 7, 2012): On January 24, 2012, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion in this court for a preliminary anti-suit injunction asking that I order defendant to dismiss the Greek lawsuit. It is well settled that I have the power to order person ...

Canton v. Kmart Corp., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6372 (3d Cir. Mar. 29, 2012): Appellant Patrice Canton ("Canton") appeals the District Court's February 12, 2010 Order granting Appellee's ("Kmart") motion for summary judgment. Canton filed a personal injury action against Kmart to recover economic damages resulting from her physical injur ...

Doss v. NPC Int’l, Inc., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 2762 (5th Cir. Feb. 10, 2012): The magistrate judge ... imposed sua sponte sanctions against the appellants' attorneys for filing the five lawsuits [in state court arising out of the same incident] because the lawsuits "needlessly increase[d] the cost of litigation" in contravention of Fed ...

Global Reinsurance Corp. v. Equitas Ltd., 2012 WL 995268 (N.Y. Ct. App. Mar. 27, 2012): At issue is the sufficiency and extra-territorial reach of plaintiff’s claim under New York State’s antitrust statute, commonly known as the Donnelly Act (General Business Law § 340 et seq.). Plaintiff is a New York branch of a German re ...

Tienda v. State, 2012 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 244 (Tex. Ct. Crim. App. Feb. 8, 2012): In his only issue for discretionary review, the appellant contends that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the electronic content obtained from MySpace during both the guilt/innocence and punishment phases of his trial. The appella ...

Rubloff Dev. Grp., Inc. v. SuperValu, Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41304 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 27, 2012): At the heart of this case is the battle for grocery shoppers' dollars in suburban Chicago. Plaintiffs develop shopping centers and say Defendants used sneaky and underhanded tactics to try to kill or delay their developments, which would h ...

Graham v. Hamilton, , 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35322 (W.D. La. Mar. 15, 2012): In Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California, a fractured Court addressed minimum contacts. There, Justice O'Conn[o]r, writing for four justices, determined that foreseeability that a defendant's product would end up in a forum state, without ...

Downey v. Bob’s Discount Furniture Holdings, Inc., 633 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2011): In 2005, the plaintiffs, Yvette Downey and her daughter, Ashley Celester, were living in Randolph, Massachusetts. Early that year they began to experience skin irritation, which they originally attributed to allergies or infections. In the crepuscular hours ...