Case Category: Major Motions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
In this § 1983 case, Tommy Meadows alleged that he had been brutally abused by corrections officers while an inmate at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Mr. Meadows brought claims against multiple corrections officers, including Eighth Amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment claims against one…
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Emmett’s client, Architectural Busstrut Corporation, is a premier supplier of commercial lighting systems. Busstrut had a contract with Target to supply its system for installation in hundreds of Target stores nationwide. Target jilted Busstrut for another supplier, and Busstrut filed…
Western District of Louisiana; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
After R.J. Reynolds terminated its direct-distributor relationship with Plaintiff Caldwell Wholesale, Caldwell sued, alleging tortious interference with business and violations of the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act. Emmett authored R.J. Reynolds’s motion to dismiss and reply in support of the…
Northern District of Ohio; Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
In this case and roughly 20 others with which it was consolidated, the consumer plaintiffs argued that Experian had violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by treating as suspicious correspondence purportedly sent by the plaintiffs. The parties, with the…
Northern District of Ohio
In a suit challenging Goodyear’s decision to terminate its dealer contracts, Plaintiff Morgan Tire alleged breaches of contract, tortious interference, and violations of federal antitrust law and the California unfair competition statute. The trial court granted Goodyear’s motion to dismiss…
Eastern District of Missouri
Trial court granted judgment on the pleadings in Experian’s favor. The plaintiff alleged that Experian had violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by reporting “stale” debts on which the statute of limitations for collections had supposedly expired.