21-CV-77 Asphalt Contractors v. R&J Transport Inc, et al
21-CV-77 Asphalt Contractors v. R&J Transport Inc, et al
Decision and Order
21-CV-77 Asphalt Contractors v. R&J Transport Inc, et al
Decision and Order
20-CV-1377 Hughes, et al v. Miller, et al
Decision and Order
The court dismissed a frivolous complaint filed by serial pro se litigators and enjoined them from commencing additional, similar suits in any state or federal court.
20-CV-1305 Heidi Anderson, et al v. Elmbrook School District, et al
Decision and Order
20-CV-1305 Heidi Anderson, et al v. Dr. Mark Hansen, et al
Decision and Order
The court preliminarily enjoined a school district’s policy requiring a student’s parent to obtain advance permission to enter school grounds to conduct routine activities such as attending her daughter’s dance recitals. The court found that the policy was issued to punish the parent for expressing unpopular views at a school board meeting and therefore was issued in violation of the First Amendment’s free speech clause.
18-CR-143 USA v. Waheba Dais
Statement of Reasons Memorandum
19-CV-1198 City of Birmingham Retirement and Relief System v. AO Smith Corp
Decision and Order
The court dismissed a complaint alleging securities fraud based on a channel-stuffing scheme for failure to plead fraud and scienter as required by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
19-CV-1210 Jason Morris, et al v. Aurora Network Plan, et al
Anti-assignment clause of ERISA plan could not be read to allow assignment of benefits to health care providers but bar assignment of the right to sue to enforce right to benefits, because right to sue to enforce benefits under a plan arises from statute and attaches wherever a party has a valid entitlement to plan benefits.
17-CR-156 USA v. Jerry Scott
Decision regarding request for “compassionate release”
07-CV-303 Burton v. American Cyanamid Co et al
Decision and Order re Motions for judgement as a Matter of Law
The court denied white lead carbonate manufacturer’s motion for judgment as a matter of law after finding that plaintiffs who were exposed to lead as children had stated a cognizable claim of negligence based on manufacture of an unreasonably dangerous product and had presented evidence sufficient to support that claim, among other issues.
19-CV-505 Rickie K. Smith v. Rockwell Automation
Decision and Order
The court found that a complaint stated a claim for relief under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 based on a pension plan’s alleged failure to use reasonable mortality tables when determining actuarial equivalence of pension annuity forms.