Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Food & Beverages : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Rights, Construction, Contracts, Food & Beverages |
| Title: | Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. MacDonald |
| Date: | 02/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–593 |
| Summary: | A plaintiff cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 unless he has or would have rights under the existing or proposed contract that he wishes "to make and enforce." Section 1981 plaintiffs must identify injuries flowing from a racially motivated breach of their own contractual relationship, not of someone else's. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Food & Beverages, Health Law |
| Title: | Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal |
| Date: | 02/21/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1084 |
| Summary: | Grant of a preliminary injunction under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in favor of plaintiff, a church, against the government involving the church's use for communion of a tea containing a hallucinogen regulated by the Controlled Substances Act, is affirmed where there was no error in a determination that the government failed to demonstrate, at the preliminary injunction stage, a compelling interest in barring the church's sacramental use of the tea. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Food & Beverages, Labor & Employment Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc. |
| Date: | 02/21/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–379 |
| Summary: | A judgment in an employment racial discrimination suit is vacated where the court of appeals erred in: 1) holding that modifiers or qualifications are necessary in all instances to render a disputed term probative of bias; and 2) in articulating a standard for determining whether the asserted nondiscriminatory reasons for defendant's hiring decisions were pretextual. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Food & Beverages, Intellectual Property, Patent |
| Title: | Unitherm Food Sys., Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc. |
| Date: | 01/23/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–597 |
| Summary: | Grant of a new trial pursuant to a review for sufficiency of the evidence in an antitrust case is vacated where defendant failed to renew its preverdict motion for a directed verdict as specified in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b), and thus, the circuit court had no basis for reviewing defendant's sufficiency of the evidence challenge. |