• Animal Science Products, Inc. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co.0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Purchasers of vitamin C filed suit, alleging that Chinese exporters had agreed to fix the price and quantity of vitamin C exported to the U.S., in violation of the Sherman Act. The exporters unsuccessfully moved to dismiss the complaint and later sought summary judgment, arguing that Chinese law required them

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  • China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Dean, an Agritech shareholder, filed a class-action complaint on February 11, 2011, alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which has a two-year statute of limitations and a five-year statute of repose, 28 U.S.C. 1658(b). The accrual date for the limitation period is February 3, 2011 and for

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  • Sveen v. Melin0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations Minnesota law provides that “the dissolution or annulment of a marriage revokes any revocable . . . beneficiary designation . . . made by an individual to the individual’s former spouse,” Minn. Stat. 524.2–804. If an insurance policyholder does not want that result, he may rename the ex-spouse as beneficiary.

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  • In Re United States0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations The Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced steps to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by March 2018, concluding that DACA violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Due Process Clause. The Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of challengers. The government then moved

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  • Hernandez v. Mesa0

    Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations In 2010, a U.S. Border Patrol agent standing on U.S. soil shot and killed Hernandez, an unarmed 15-year-old Mexican national, standing on Mexican soil. Hernandez had been playing a game that involved running up the embankment on the U.S. side of the border. After the Justice Department closed an investigation,

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  • Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

    Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago0

    Hamer filed an employment discrimination suit. The district court granted the defendants summary judgment, entering final judgment on September 14.

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