The petitioner, the defendant in an automobile negligence action, seeks a writ of certiorari to quash the trial court’s order overruling her objection to discovery of her 2 medical records. The order subject to the petition requires disclosure of two distinct groups of records: (1) the petitioner’s pharmacy records for the one-year period preceding the date of the subject automobile accident, ... More...   $0 (05-17-2013 - FL)

When Mahmoud Hegab, an employee of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ("NGA") with a top secret security clearance, informed the agency of his marriage to Bushra Nusairat, the NGA conducted a reinvestigation into his security clearance. Based on new information, the NGA revoked Hegab’s security clearance.

Hegab commenced this action under the Administrative Procedure Act against ... More...   $0 (04-25-2013 - VA)

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)

Appellant Conejo Wellness Center, Inc. (Conejo) is located in the City of Agoura Hills. Conejo is a California cooperative corporation that operates as a nonprofit collective engaged in the distribution of medical marijuana to its members. Respondent is the City of Agoura Hills (Agoura).

In the court below, Conejo filed a complaint which sought injunctive and declaratory relief against Agou... More...   $0 (03-29-2013 - CA)

Mellony and Douglas Burlison brought this action on behalf of their son C.M. under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Missouri Constitution, alleging that Springfield Public Schools (the district), superintendent Norm Ridder, principal Ron Snodgrass, and sheriff James Arnott violated C.M.'s constitutional rights by briefly separating him from his backpack during a drug dog exercise in his high school class... More...   $0 (03-05-2013 - MO)

2 This appeal presents a single issue: Does New York’s
3 handgun licensing scheme violate the Second Amendment by
4 requiring an applicant to demonstrate “proper cause� to
5 obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun in public?
6 Plaintiffs Alan Kachalsky, Christina Nikolov, Johnnie
7 Nance, Anna Marcucci-Nance, and Eric Detmer (together, the
8 “Plaintiffsâ€�) al... More...   $0 (11-28-2012 - NY)

The “yellow pages� telephone directory was once a ubiquitous part of American life, found in virtually every household and office. We were regularly encouraged to let our fingers do the walking. But times have changed, and today phone books, like land-line telephones themselves, are not so universally accepted.

The City of Seattle imposes substantial conditions and costs on the distribu... More...   $0 (10-15-2012 - WA)

Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC (PRA) appeals the September 14, 2011 district court order granting Jesse Meyer’s motion for a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification. Meyer’s complaint alleged that PRA’s debt collection efforts violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227. The district court’s preliminary injunction restrained PRA from using... More...   $0 (10-12-2012 - CA)

Plaintiffs, retired General Charles E. “Chuckâ€� Yeager and his foundation, appeal the district court’s order granting summary judgment to Defendants Ed and Connie Bowlin. Yeager contends that the district court should not have struck his declaration, which contains comprehensive details he did not remember at his deposition. He also contends that, under California’s single-publication rule,... More...   $0 (09-11-2012 - CA)

Wallace James Beaulieu ("Beaulieu"), Lionel Tohannie Yazzie, Larry DeLaney Sr., Emergy Eugene Bush, John Louis Beaulieu III ("Beaulieu III"), and Michael J. Gimmestad (collectively, "Patients") are patients civilly committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP). The Patients brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Minnesota Department of Human Services officials ("DHS officials")1 and... More...   $0 (08-29-2012 - MN)

Kelly Fazzini appeals the trial court's order denying his petition to modify a domesticated State of Virginia judgment allowing Pamela Davis, his child's maternal grandmother, visitation rights. Mr. Fazzini alleges two instances of trial court error. First, he claims that the trial court erred in concluding that the Virginia judgment qualified for recognition in Florida under the Full Faith and Cr... More...   $0 (07-13-2012 - FL)

Appellant in this case is the City of Los Angeles (City). Respondents are various collectives and individual members of collectives (Collectives) currently engaged in the cultivation, distribution, or use of medical marijuana within City limits.1 In the court below, the Collectives filed various separate lawsuits seeking to enjoin enforcement of City Ordinance No. 181069 (Ordinance), passed by the... More...   $0 (07-03-2012 - CA)

This is an appeal from the trial court's final judgment dismissing with prejudice Gregory Strange's lawsuit against several individuals, a corporation and a law firm. Strange sued Shane Allen, Pablo Fonolla, and Maan Hamdan, in their individual capacities and each in their capacity as an officer of HRsmart, Inc. In addition, Strange sued Jason Bloom, David Harper, and Michelle Jacobs, who were att... More...   $0 (05-17-2012 - TX)

This case arose from a dispute between the plaintiff, Sophie C. Currier (Currier), a medical student and a nursing mother, and the defendant, the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), a private, nonprofit corporation [FN2] responsible for administering the United States medical licensing examination (exam), which is a test required for medical licensure in Massachusetts. Currier brought an ... More...   $0 (04-13-2012 - MA)

Plaintiff Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher appeals the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action alleging First Amendment retaliation and violation of his informational right to privacy. We affirm.

I.

The undisputed facts, as summarized by the district court, are as follows: [Wurzelbacher] is an individual and resident of the State of Ohio. He was trained as a plumber by the U... More...   $0 (03-27-2012 - OH)

Petitioners K.G. and Donna H. were determined to be gravely disabled persons under the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5000 et seq.)1 and were subject to conservatorships. Orders establishing the conservatorships divested them of the right to make their own decisions on medical treatment for their grave disabilities, including involuntary administration of antipsychotic me... More...   $0 (03-08-2012 - CA)

Plaintiffs and appellants Michael Willard and Jessica Sher subscribed to a wireline1 telephone service and to a service offered by the telephone company that suppressed their names, addresses, and telephone numbers from the White Pages telephone directory and 411 directory assistance (―nonpublished service‖). The voice communications services industry in California is under the jurisdiction of... More...   $0 (03-06-2012 - CA)

In this property action, defendant Res-Care Premier, Inc. appeals as of right from the trial court’s grant of summary disposition to plaintiffs, Scott and Jeanne Woodbury, and Center Woods, Inc., concluding that Center Woods has the right of first refusal to purchase the property known as 2 Center Woods, and that defendant Ruth Averill failed to provide sufficient notice to Center Woods, as cert... More...   $0 (01-19-2012 - MI)

Plaintiff Alexandra M. Alvarez appeals a judgment entered after the trial court sustained the demurrer filed by defendant Brookstone Company, Inc. (Brookstone) to her complaint that alleged a violation of Civil Code1 section 1747.08 for requesting and recording her ZIP code as part of a credit card transaction. On appeal, Alvarez contends that because Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc. (2011) ... More...   $0 (01-18-2012 - CA)

The Freedom of Information Act, (“FOIAâ€�), 5 U.S.C. § 552, mandates that federal agencies make their records available to the public upon request, subject to nine discretionary exemptions. See Milner v. Dep’t of Navy, 131 S. Ct. 1259, 1262 (2011). This case presents two FOIA issues. The first is whether an agency fulfills its disclosure obligation by offering to supply the documents to the r... More...   $0 (01-18-2012 - HI)

After her first termination from the City of Pasadena Police Department and subsequent reinstatement, Karin White brought a lawsuit in state court claiming that she had been discriminated against and harassed by the City due to its perception that she had a disability. After her second termination, she reiterated her discrimination and harassment claims in an administrative proceeding, where she a... More...   $0 (01-17-2012 - CA)

Do we have to decide a qualified immunity appeal involving close questions of law that the district court hasn’t yet addressed? Do the police violate a suspect’s clearly established rights by requesting his hospital records? And do authorities have probable cause to arrest a trained marksman who makes suspicious statements in the wake of a shooting, who leads officers on a high speed chase, an... More...   $0 (12-20-2011 - NM)

¶ 1 After the plaintiff, Diane Borchers, found out that her former employer, the defendant Franciscan Tertiary Province of the Sacred Heart, Inc., d/b/a Mayslake Village, Inc. (Mayslake), had accessed her personal e-mail account and printed out over 30 personal e-mails, she brought suit against Mayslake, alleging violations of title II of the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 ... More...   $0 (12-07-2011 - IL)

Defendant United States Swimming, Inc. ("U.S. Swimming") appeals from an order directing it to pay monetary sanctions in the amount of $5,250 to plaintiff Jane Doe. The superior court found that U.S. Swimming, without substantial justification, failed to comply with its August 6, 2010 discovery order and opposed plaintiff's motion to compel compliance with that order. (Code Civ. Proc., § 904.1, s... More...   $0 (11-21-2011 - CA)

Appellant Jane Doe, a deputy sheriff in the Luzerne County Sheriff‘s Department (the ―Department‖), brought this action against appellees Luzerne County (the ―County‖), Ryan Foy, who was a deputy chief for the Department at the time of the events at issue, and Barry Stankus, who was the sheriff of Luzerne County also at that time (collectively, the County, Foy, and Stankus are ―County ... More...   $0 (10-14-2011 - PA)