We must decide the appropriate discipline in the case of respondents Thomas V. Girardi, Walter J. Lack, Paul A. Traina, and a junior associate in Lack’s firm. Respondents attempted to enforce a putative foreign judgment for $489 million in district court but failed. They undertook and maintained a...   MORE>>

Manuel and Petra Cerda appeal from the district court’s judgment rejecting their claims that aspects of their home equity loan violated the Texas Constitution. We agree with the district court that the Cerdas have failed to show a violation of the Texas Constitution, and we affirm.

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Great American Insurance Company (“GAIC”) issued crime protection policies to AFS/IBEX Financial Services, Inc. (“AFS”). After suffering a loss caused by the forgery of certain checks, AFS submitted a claim to GAIC. GAIC denied coverage and filed for declaratory judgment. AFS counterclaimed ...   MORE>>

The proceeding before us is but a short chapter in an acrimonious and long-running business dispute between Quixtar, Inc. (“Quixtar”), successor to the well-known Amway Corporation, and Signature Management TEAM, LLC (“TEAM”). Quixtar sued TEAM, claiming that TEAM orchestrated an Internet sm...   MORE>>

Plaintiff-Appellant Xcaliber International Limited LLC (“Xcaliber”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Attorney General of Louisiana (the “State”). Xcaliber manufactures and sells discount cigarettes. The case presents a challenge to an amendment to the ...   MORE>>

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) appeals an injunction requiring immediate installation of emissions controls at four TVA electricity generating plants in Alabama and Tennessee. The injunction was based on the district court’s determination that the TVA plants’ emissions constitute a public ...   MORE>>

Michael Sloas, a sheetmetal worker employed by CSX Transportation, Inc. ("CSXT"), injured his back while attempting to remove a damaged Snyder valve from a locomotive’s fuel tank. Subsequently, Sloas applied for and received a disability annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act ("RRA"). See 45 U....   MORE>>

This case arises from the attempt by the people of North Carolina and their elected representatives to end racial and gender-based discrimination in state highway construction subcontracting. The State’s statutory scheme—the product of extensive study and refinement in response to developments i...   MORE>>

Samuel Albright Brown, an inmate incarcerated at the Alexander Correctional Institute ("ACI") in Taylorsville, North Carolina, filed the instant suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Defendants, Correctional Officers Winkler, Teague, and Simms, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections,...   MORE>>

Relator John Owens brought this qui tam suit under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729, et seq., against First Kuwaiti construction firm, his former employer. He alleged that the firm billed falsely for deficient work in connection with construction of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and t...   MORE>>