Diane Jenkins (Jenkins) requests the reversal of the trial court‘s dismissal of her lawsuit after it sustained the two separate demurrers of (1) JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. (Chase) and Bank of America, N.A. (B of A) and (2) Quality Loan Service Corporation (Quality). (These entities will collectively be referred to as Defendants, unless the context indicates otherwise.) In 2007, Jenkins executed a ... More...   $0 (05-17-2013 - CA)

We affirm the trial court‟s judgment holding defendant Bruce Elieff liable for misstating his authority to bind a group of real estate businesses known as the “Joint Entitiesâ€� in the course of agreeing to buy out his former partner, plaintiff Todd Kurtin. We affirm the trial court‟s posttrial order denying Elieff‟s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. And we affirm the trial ... More...   $0 (05-09-2013 - CA)

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Cbr Systems, Inc. failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information and that its inadequate security practices led to a breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and debit and credit card information of nearly 300,000 consumers.

As part of the settlement a... More...   $0 (05-03-2013 - DC)

The defendant in this defamation case asks us to reverse the judgment and remand the case for a new trial. He argues that this result is required because the jury’s answer to the single actual-damages question was predicated on its findings that he published nine defamatory statements that he knew or should have known were false, but the evidence is legally insufficient that one of the statement... More...   $0 (05-02-2013 - TX)

Adley H. Abdulwahab appeals his convictions and sentence for several crimes relating to an investment scheme that resulted in nearly $100 million in losses for investors. We reverse Abdulwahab’s convictions for money laundering but affirm the remainder of his convictions. Because we reverse the money laundering convictions, we vacate his sentence and remand for resentencing.

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In 2011, Appellant C.H. Canada (Carol) filed a bill of review challenging an agreed divorce decree that was signed on May 18, 2000. The trial court granted a combined traditional and no-evidence motion for summary judgment filed by W.R. Canada, Jr. (Ralph). Carol perfected an appeal, raising eleven issues challenging the summary judgment. We will affirm.

The trial court also found that Caro... More...   $0 (04-25-2013 - TX)

Maribel Monroy executed two promissory notes with WMC Mortgage Corp. (WMC) when purchasing a home in Richmond, California in 2006 (the Richmond property). After a foreclosure on the senior deed of trust, Heritage Pacific Financial, LLC (Heritage) acquired Monroy‘s second promissory note from WMC. Heritage sent Monroy a letter attached to a complaint and summons advising her that Heritage had fil... More...   $0 (04-25-2013 - CA)

Karen Marie Kline filed this adversary proceedi ng in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico, seeking damages from the defendants under 11 U.S.C. § 362( k) based on their alleged willful violation of the automatic stay. The bankruptcy court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The Tenth Circuit Bankrupt cy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed. Kline v. Deutsch... More...   $0 (04-18-2013 - NM)

Norman J. Harris sued Susan Marks Harris, D. Todd Riddles and Cheek, Cheek & Cheek claiming:

1. Plaintiffs, Norma J. Harris (“Norma�) and Glenn E. Harris (“Bud�) (collectively, “Plaintiffs�), are individuals. They are citizens, residents, and domiciliaries of Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma.

2. The first Defendant, Susan Marks Harris (“Susan Harrisâ€�), is an thd... More...   $0 (04-14-2013 - OK)

Petitioner Derrick Robert Evans stole a business check from the small business where he worked, made the check out to himself for $500, then forged a signature on the check and cashed it. Evans was charged with identity theft and convicted after a bench trial. See RCW 9.35.020(1) ("No person may knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of anoth... More...   $0 (04-11-2013 - WA)

¶1 On October 21, 2005, David F. Moore and Barbara Moore, husband and wife (hereinafter "Appellants"), executed a Note and Mortgage in favor of Colonial Bank, N.A. (hereinafter "Lender"), for property located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (hereinafter "MERS"), was designated as the nominee for the lender pursuant to subsection (C) of the Mortgage.1 W... More...   $0 (04-10-2013 - OK)

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (hereinafter, “Volkswagen�) seeks review of the trial court’s judgment awarding the attorneys in the underlying class action lawsuit attorneys’ fees. Volkswagen raises five points on appeal challenging the lodestar amount and the multiplier that the trial court applied.

This Court finds that the lodestar amount was within the trial court’s discret... More...   $0 (04-09-2013 - MO)

When a real-estate deal fell through, potential buyers Tariq Qureshi and Mehnaz Qureshi entered into a Mutual Release from Purchase Agreement, which entitled them to a return of their $5000 earnest-money deposit. The $5000 check was made payable to the seller’s real-estate agent, who cashed the check and never returned the money. The Qureshis filed a small-claims action against the seller, the s... More...   $0 (04-08-2013 - IN)

In this suit arising from the sale of land, we examine the appropriate measure of damages for a sale obtained through fraudulent inducement. A jury concluded that the seller of the land had failed to disclose material information to the buyer about the financial state of a commercial tenant who leased the land. But the jury further concluded that the buyers suffered nothing in damages proximately ... More...   $0 (04-05-2013 - TX)

Appellant, J.W. Jones, appeals the trial court’s judgment, entered after a jury verdict, enforcing an oral contract for the sale of real property located at 3617 Clinton Street in Abilene to Appellees, Danny and Connie Perry, and awarding Appellees title to the property.1 We affirm.

I. Procedural History

Appellees filed suit against Appellant and his brother, Carl Jones, and al... More...   $0 (04-04-2013 - TX)

American Airlines, Inc., AirTrans, Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. sued Travelport Limited and Orbiz Worldwide, LLC on antitrust theories claiming that Sabre Holdings Corp. and Travelport, L.P. conspired to block Plaintiffs from entry into the electronic flight-data and reservations market.

In February, the parties allegedly agreed to a no payment settlement with mutual releases.

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The federal Medicaid statute’s anti-lien provision, 42 U. S. C. §1396p(a)(1), pre-empts a State’s effort to take any portion of a Medicaid beneficiary’s tort judgment or settlement not “designated aspayments for medical care,â€� Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Servs. v. Ahlborn, 547 U. S. 268, 284. A North Carolina statute requires that up to one-third of any damages recovered by a ben... More...   $0 (03-30-2013 - NC)

Appellants, E-Quest Management, LLC (“E-Quest�) and Odyssey OneSource, Inc. (“Odyssey�), challenge the trial court’s judgment, entered after a trial to the court, in favor of appellee, Robbie Shaw, in Shaw’s suit against them

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for successor liability. In five issues, E-Quest and Odyssey contend that they have been “prevented from proper presentmentâ€� of this appeal du... More...   $0 (03-28-2013 - TX)

Before us are appeals in two closely related collective actions for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act; for simplicity we’ll pretend that they are just one suit and that there is just one appeal. The original named defendants were JT Packard & Associates, the plaintiffs’ employer, and Packard’s parent, S.R. Bray Corp. We don’t know why the parent was made a defendant. It was n... More...   $0 (03-26-2013 - WI)

In this case, appellant Martha A. Gregory d/b/a Workzone Technologies (“Workzone�) sued appellee Porter & Hedges, LLP (“P&H�), a law firm, for breach of fiduciary duty. Workzone alleges the breach occurred during P&H’s representation of Workzone in another piece of litigation. A unanimous jury returned a verdict in favor of P&H, and the trial court entered a take-nothing

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United States of America charged Myra Holmes, age 55, on bankruptcy and bank fraud asserting that she paid off her gambling and shopping debts asserting that Defendant concealed the fact that she had received from her father his half-interest in a Vallejo residence in which she was living. Her father had previously declared bankruptcy, but Defendant took control of his interest in the property wi... More...   $0 (03-21-2013 - CA)

The “exclusive rightsâ€� that a copyright owner has “to distribute copies. . . of [a] copyrighted work,â€� 17 U. S. C. §106(3), are qualified by the application of several limitations set out in §§107 through 122, including the “first saleâ€� doctrine, which provides that “the owner of a particular copy or phono record lawfully made under this title . . . isentitled, without the authori... More...   $0 (03-19-2013 - NY)

Thomas J. Alfes appeals the district-court judgment affirming the bankruptcy court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC). We AFFIRM.

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Between 1982 and 1997, Alfes took out student loans funded in whole or in part by the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Alfes consolidated his student-loan debt and, on the final... More...   $0 (03-12-2013 - MI)

Plaintiff-Appellant Eric Rajala, Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Generation Resources Holding Company, LLC (GRHC), appeals from the district court’s order granting motions to distribute (by Defendants-Appellees FreeStream Capital, LLC (FreeStream) and Lookout Windpower Holding Co., LLC (LWHC)) approximately $9 million held in escrow. This amount represents part of the purchase price of a win... More...   $0 (03-12-2013 - KS)

Mid-Contient Casualty Company sued Wayne Giffiths Homes, Inc. , Michael S. Smith and Jill Smith seeking a declaratory judgement regarding its obligations assumed by it under and insurance contract sold by it claiming:

1. This is an action brought pursuant to 12 O.S. 1651, et. seq., to determine and resolve questions of actual controversy concerning the availability and scope of insurance co... More...   $0 (03-08-2013 - OK)