This appeal presents a fee dispute between two lawyers. O ne claims that he is owed fees earned in appealing their client’s underlying case. T he other claims the fee-division agreement was limited to fees relating to trial work and did not include appellate fees.

SUMMARY

Penny Shipler hired Dan L. McCord, acting on behalf of McCord & B urns Law Firm, LLP (collectively McCord), to ... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - NE)

Lynn R . McNeel brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability A ct (FELA), alleging that he was injured when he inhaled fumes while employed as a conductor by Union Pacific Railroad Company (Union Pacific). T he district court for Lincoln County granted Union Pacific’s Daubert/Schafersman motion to exclude McNeel’s expert witnesses from testifying and subsequently entered summar... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - NE)

Over the past several years, W.L. Winstrom (Bill) and his son, A ndrew Winstrom, have waged war over 8.49 shares of Pennfield Oil Company (Pennfield), a closely held corporation.

Pennfield’s board of directors consisted of B ill; S ydney Winstrom, Bill’s wife and A ndrew’s mother, and A ndrew. This is the second appeal concerning the disputed shares. The battle centered on redemption ... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - NE)

[¶1.] James and Carol DeHaven (DeHavens) appeal from a judgment declaring that Don and Sherrie Hall (Halls) possess a permanent right-of-way easement over DeHavens' property, ordering Halls to reasonably maintain and repair the easement, and granting DeHavens $2,358 in damages as well as taxation of disbursements. Halls filed a notice of review. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
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[¶1.] Sioux Equipment installed a fuel storage and dispensing system on real property owned by Clark County (County). County and the State of South Dakota Petroleum Release Compensation Fund (PRCF) sued Sioux Equipment when the system leaked and released diesel fuel into the environment. Sioux Equipment moved for summary judgment on the ground that a ten-year statute of repose barred County’s a... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - SD)

[¶1.] This case arises out of a one-car accident in a city park in Rapid City, South Dakota (the City). Adam Hohm (Adam) was severely injured when the car in which he was a passenger skidded off a street in the park and landed upside down in a nearby canal. Adam's parents, Dean and Jean Hohm (Hohms), acting as Adam's guardians and conservators, brought suit against the City alleging breach of var... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - SD)

[¶1.] Joseph Berbos purchased real property from Harold and Gwen Krage on a contract for deed. When the parties disputed ownership of a building encroaching onto land not sold in the contract, Berbos withheld his last payment and brought suit for specific performance. After a hearing, the circuit court granted summary judgment for Berbos, ruling that the parties intended to convey the entire buil... More...   $0 (07-19-2008 - SD)

The Parents of Sabrina Brierton Johnson sued Johnson & Johnson d/b/a McNeil Laboratories on a products liability theory claiming that the Children's Motrin that was given to her caused her to develop Stevens-Johnson syndrome, the disease which blinded her. The 11-year-old broke out in blisters that almost destroyed her eyes five years ago after taking Children's Motrin for a fever. Plaintiffs clai... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - CA)

Carter Bryant claimed that the developed Bratz dolls during breaks in employment with Mattel but Mattel claimed that he developed the designs for the dolls while working for it and claimed that it was entitled to the money made by MGA from the sale of the dolls.

Mattel claimed that MGA and its Chief Executive Isaac Larian intentionally interfered with the contractual duties owed by Bryant... More...   $1 (07-18-2008 - CA)

Plaintiff, Todd Montgomery, contacted defendant, Nostalgia Lane, Inc., to restore his 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner. Defendant inspected the vehicle and provided plaintiff a written estimate that the project was expected to cost $35,000 but that the final bill would reflect the actual cost of parts and labor. Plaintiff agreed to the project and paid installments amounting to $33,500, but defendant devi... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

The outcome of this case turns on when plaintiffs knew or should have known their injury was wrongfully caused. Plaintiffs Josetta Nair and Segran Nair filed a complaint for medical malpractice and loss of consortium against defendants Allen Bloom, M.D., Melvin Boule, M.D., and Rush-Copley Memorial Hospital (Rush-Copley) and The Rush System for Health (Rush).

The trial court entered summary... More...   $0 (06-23-2008 - IL)

Plaintiffs Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, and Certain London Market Insurance Companies1 sought a judicial declaration of their obligations under reinsurance and direct insurance contracts involving defendant Astro Limited (Astro), serving as both the reinsured and direct, captive insurer, and defendant Boeing Company (Boeing), the direct insured. The circuit court of Cook County grant... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

The plaintiff, Aureen Berry, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendant, Chade Fashions, Inc. (Chade Fashions), for breach of contract and violation of the Illinois Right of Publicity Act (765 ILCS 1075/30 (West 2000)) (the Act). The trial court entered a partial summary judgment for the plaintiff as to liability under the Act. The issues of damages and breach of c... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

The plaintiffs, Randy Geisler, Michael Van Winkle, and Stacey M. Curtis, appeal the order of the circuit court of Madison County that entered a judgment in favor of the defendants, the City of Wood River, Illinois (the City), and Wood River Partners, LLC (the developer), on the plaintiffs' second amended complaint (the complaint). The plaintiffs raise numerous issues on appeal, which we restate as... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

Plaintiff-appellant Stacey Gregory, individually and as special administrator of the estate of her deceased husband Larry Gregory (plaintiff),1 filed a complaint at law in Illinois sounding in negligence against a multitude of defendants,2 including defendants-appellants Beazer East (Beazer), Bondex International (Bondex), Exxon Mobil (Mobil), Georgia-Pacific Corporation (Georgia-Pacific) and Unio... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

Plaintiff filed a declaratory judgment action against defendant, seeking a declaration that plaintiff was entitled to underinsured motorist (UIM) insurance coverage in the same amount as her bodily injury liability limits of $250,000. Plaintiff’s claim was based on defendant’s alleged failure to comply with the provisions of section 143a-2 of the Illinois Insurance Code (Code) (215 ILCS 5/143a... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

Plaintiff Illinois Department of Transportation (Department) filed a complaint for condemnation of a parcel of property owned by defendant Speedway Superamerica LLC (Speedway). Speedway and defendant Leroy Anderson, as an interested party, filed a traverse and motion to dismiss, which the trial court denied. On appeal, Anderson contends that the trial court’s quick-take order must be reversed be... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

The plaintiff, Stephen T. Malec, appeals the order of the circuit court that granted the motion for a judgment on the pleadings filed by the defendants, the City of Belleville (the City) and Green Mount Development, LLC, and GMCR, LLC (the Developers), and dismissed the plaintiff's first amended complaint. On appeal, we are called upon to decide whether a citizen and taxpayer of the City has stand... More...   $0 (07-18-2008 - IL)

Plaintiff, Katherine Napleton, filed a complaint against defendant, the Village of Hinsdale (Hinsdale), requesting that the circuit court of Du Page County declare certain textual amendments made by Hinsdale to its zoning code facially unconstitutional as violative of substantive due process and to enjoin their enforcement. The circuit court dismissed plaintiff’s complaint pursuant to section 2â... More...   $0 (07-17-2008 - IL)

In this case, we are asked to determine the constitutionality of Public Act 94–804 (the Act), which imposed, for a two-year period beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, a 3% surcharge on the four riverboat casinos in Illinois that had adjusted gross receipts (AGR) of over $200 million in the calendar year 2004. The remaining five riverboat casinos, all of which had AGRs below $2... More...   $0 (07-17-2008 - IL)

In this personal injury case, the jury’s damages award included the full amount of plaintiff’s billed medical expenses. At issue is whether the trial court erred in reducing the jury’s award of medical expenses to the amount actually paid by Medicaid and Medicare in full settlement of the bills. In addressing this issue, we will answer questions about the operation of the collateral source r... More...   $0 (07-17-2008 - IL)

York County, Pennsylvania sued Peter Alecxih, Jr. on an eminent domain theory to acquire certain rights, title and interests in and to property owned by Defendant in Lower Windson Township known as Highpoint Scenic Vista and Recreation Area. Alecxih planned to turn the area into a 51-lot luxury home development. He had obtained approvals and public water and sewer connections for the project and h... More...   $17250000 (07-17-2008 - PA)

The Family and Estate of Scott J. Keith sued Donald Skewis on a wrongful death theory claiming that Skewis wrongfully and without just cause shot and killed Keith on July 1, 2004 in a feud over a public easement between their properties. Investigators found Keith was carrying an aluminum baseball bat and a knife when he was shot as he approached Skewis' property.

Defendant claimed that h... More...   $4400000 (07-17-2008 - WA)

In September 2001 the Shoreline Towers Condominium Association adopted rules for the hallways of its building at 6301 North Sheridan Road in Chicago. The rules provide, among other things, that “[m]ats, boots, shoes, carts or objects of any sort” may not be placed outside owners’ doors. The rules also prohibit signs on doors or in hallways. Lynne Bloch, who was on the association’s board a... More...   $0 (07-17-2008 - IL)

Compania Administradora de Recuperacion de Activos Administradora de Fondos de Inversion Sociedad Anonima (“Compania”) sued Titan International, Inc. (“Titan”) for breach of a guaranty contract. As an affirmative defense, Titan asserted that Compania had impaired the collateral that secured the guaranteed debt. After discovery, Compania moved for summary judgment. The district court grante... More...   $0 (07-17-2008 - IL)