Board of Education v. Spurlin (Colorado, 1960) · Historystrong Board of Education v. Spurlin, 141 Colo. 508 (1960), was a Colorado Supreme Court case against E. T. Spurlin as state controller. The court held that officers of the State Department of Education were exempt from the classified civil service.
J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw (1956) · Historystrong J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [1956] EWCA Civ 3 is an English Court of Appeal decision on exclusion clauses, best known for Lord Denning's "red hand rule". The claimant, J. Spurling Ltd, was a London warehousing company; its name uses the related surname Spurling, not Spurlin.
People v. Spurlin (1984) · Historystrong People v. Spurlin, 156 Cal. App. 3d 119 (1984), is a California appellate decision holding that heat-of-passion provocation must come from the person killed. A defendant provoked by one person cannot claim it for killing someone who did not provoke him.
Spurlin in American case law · Historystrong A guide to published American appellate decisions with a party named Spurlin, from an 1818 North Carolina dispute over a whiskey still to 21st-century cases on public records, county government and bankruptcy crime. Each summary is drawn from the opinion's own text.
Spurlin v. General Motors Corp. · Historystrong Spurlin v. General Motors Corp., 528 F.2d 612 (5th Cir. 1976), arose from a 1968 school-bus brake failure in Morgan County, Alabama. The Fifth Circuit reinstated a jury verdict for the plaintiffs, and the case is taught as an example of the standard for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
United States v. Spurlin (2011) · Historystrong United States v. Spurlin, 664 F.3d 954 (5th Cir. 2011), is a Fifth Circuit bankruptcy-crimes decision. It held that a general power of attorney can be used to file a bankruptcy petition for someone else, reversed one false-oath conviction for insufficient evidence, and affirmed convictions for concealing estate assets and for bankruptcy fraud.