Rolls-Royce PLC (“Rolls-Royce”) sold a jet engine to the Boeing Company (“Boeing”), which Boeing intended to use on one of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC at 690. In January 2016, Boeing tested the aircraft at its...
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In 1978, Congress established the Trustee program and Bankruptcy Administrator program. Siegel v Fitzgerald at 160. These programs were designed to handle United States bankruptcy proceedings. Id. In 1986, the Trustee program was made permanent in 1986...
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, State Farm Fire & Casualty Company (“State Farm”) participated in the National Flood Insurance Program’s “Write Your Own” Program. See United States ex rel. Rigsby v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company,...
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In September 2007, John Sturgeon was operating a state-registered hovercraft to access moose-hunting grounds surrounding the Nation River in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve in Alaska. Sturgeon v. Masica, 768 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir. 2014)....
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Plaintiffs Muhammad Tanvir, Jameel Algibah, and Naveed Shinwari (“Tanvir”) are Muslim men born abroad but are now either a permanent resident or a citizen of the United States. Tanvir v. FNU Tanzin at 452.
In February 2007, two Federal Bureau...
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Inforocket.Com, Inc. (“Inforocket”) was the original licensee of Patent No. 5,818,836 (“the ‘836 patent”). Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, v. Ingenio, Inc., Yellowpages.com, LLC at 3. In 2001, Inforocket filed suit against Keen, Inc. (“Keen”) alleging...
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Jorge Luna Torres, a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, plead guilty to and was convicted of attempted third-degree arson in violation of New York State Penal Law §§ 110.00 and 150.10 in...
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Unicolors creates and copyrights artwork that it eventually prints and markets to garment manufacturers. Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. at 1196. Unicolors markets some of its designs to the general public by placing them in a...
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In 2001, Respondent James Alvin Castleman pled guilty, in Tennessee state court, to one count of misdemeanor domestic assault in violation of Tennessee Code § 39-13-111(b). United States v. Castleman, 695 F.3d 582, 583 (6th Cir. 2012). One way a...
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Beginning on June 16, 2014, Respondents Maurice Davis and Andre Levon Glover (“Davis and Glover”) conducted four robberies in and around Dallas, Texas over the course of several days. Brief for Petitioner, United States at 3, 6. In every robbery, the...