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×Abernathy v. Sisters of St. Mary’s
Supreme Court of Missouri | 446 S.W.2d 599 (Mo. 1969)
A nongovernmental charitable institution is liable for its own negligence and for the negligence of its agents and employees acting within the scope of their employment.
Adler, Barish, Daniels, Levin, and Creskoff v. Epstein
Pennsylvania Supreme Court | 393 A.2d 1175 (Pa. 1978)
One who intentionally and improperly interferes with the performance of a contract between another and a third party by inducing the third party not to perform is subject to liability.
Alexander v. Sandoval
United States Supreme Court | 532 U.S. 275 (2001)
Private individuals do not have a cause of action to enforce the disparate impact regulations in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Anderson v. Minneapolis, St. P. & S. St. M. Ry. Co.
Minnesota Supreme Court | 179 N.W. 45 (Minn. 1920)
Where separate acts of negligence combine to directly produce a single harm, each negligent actor is liable for the entire harm, even though each act alone may not have caused it.
Anderson v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.
Supreme Court of California | 810 P.2d 549 (Cal. 1991)
In a strict products liability case in which failure to warn of the danger is claimed, evidence of the state of the art of manufacturing the product is admissible.
Anderson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | 377 F.Supp. 136 (E.D. La. 1974)
A trial judge may not enter a judgment based on a jury verdict for damages that exceeds the maximum amount that a reasonable jury would find is appropriate.
Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of | 94 N.E. 386 (Mass. 1911)
A railroad company negligently breaches its duty of care by not keeping its platforms free of debris.
Ashby v. White
Court of King’s Bench | 92 Eng.Rep. 126 (1702)
If an individual with voting rights is refused the opportunity to vote, he should have a cause of action against the individual who refused him.
Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Daniels
Court of Appeals of Georgia | 70 S.E. 203 (Ga.App. 1911)
Proving that an act was the proximate cause of an injury is sufficient to maintain a claim of negligence.
Bacon v. St. Paul Union Stockyards Co.
Minnesota Supreme Court | 201 N.W. 326 (Minn. 1924)
Wrongful interference with an individual’s employment is actionable.
Barmore v. Elmore
Illinois Appellate Court, Second District | 403 N.E.2d 1355 (Ill.App. 1980)
A licensee is a social guest who is invited to the landowner’s property, but for the guest’s own purposes as opposed to the business of the landowner.
Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc.
New Mexico Court of Appeals | 646 P.2d 579 (N.M. App. 1982)
Joint and several liability does not apply in a pure comparative negligence system.
Bartolone v. Jeckovich
Supreme Court of New York | 103 A.D.2d 632 (N.Y. Sup. 1984)
A defendant takes the plaintiff as he finds him, including the weakness and susceptibility to injury that he already had.
Baxter v. Ford Motor Co.
Supreme Court of Washington | 12 P.2d 409 (Wash. 1932)
A manufacturer is liable to a consumer for harm resulting from goods’ failure to possess a certain quality, when the manufacturer represented that the goods did in fact contain said quality, even if the consumer bought the goods from a third party.
Belli v. Orlando Daily Newspapers, Inc.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | 389 F.2d 579 (5th Cir. 1957)
In a defamation claim, if the statement is open to two interpretations, one of which is defamatory and one which is not, it is for the jury to determine whether the defamatory sense was the one conveyed.
Bierczynski v. Rogers
Delaware Supreme Court | 239 A.2d 218 (Del. 1968)
Participation in a car race on a public highway is an act of concurrent negligence and both racers may be held liable for any injury to a non-racer resulting therefrom.
Big Towne Nursing Home, Inc. v. Newman
Texas Court of Civil Appeals | 461 S.W.2d 195 (1970)
False imprisonment is the direct restraint of the physical liberty of another without legal justification.
Bindrim v. Mitchell
Court of Appeal of California for the Second District | 92 Cal.App.3d 61 (1979)
A character in a book modeled after a real person may be libelous if a reasonable person reading the book would understand that the fictional character therein depicted was, in actual fact, the plaintiff.
Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
United States Supreme Court | 403 U.S. 388 (1971)
Violation of the Fourth Amendment by a federal agent gives rise to a cause of action for damages resulting from the violation.
Blackburn v. Dorta
Florida Supreme Court | 348 So.2d 287 (Fla. 1977)
The doctrine of assumption of risk is no longer viable as an absolute bar to recovery after the adoption of a comparative negligence standard.
