Cases & Results: Tag Archive - "Federal Court"
The following cases went through one of the United States federal courts.
The following cases are also related to this term:
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…
United States Supreme Court
Successfully obtained certiorari review in case challenging the “separate sovereigns” exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. Client had been convicted as a felon-in-possession of a firearm in both federal and state court in Alabama. Emmett, one of three…
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…
District of Nevada; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Obtained complete summary judgment in favor of consumer credit reporting company where plaintiff alleged violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Plaintiff subsequently appealed from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada to the Ninth Circuit…
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
In this challenging habeas corpus case, Emmett represented a client who had been convicted in Michigan state court a decade earlier of assault with intent to commit murder. The conviction had previously been affirmed by the Michigan Court of Appeals,…
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…