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cty, sa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with ... More $0 (10-28-2025 - FL)

State of South Dakota v. Vincente Estrqde Leon, Jr.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, criminal defendant lawyer representing Defendant charged with illful injury resulting in serious injury, assault while participating in a felony, intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and carrying a weapon while intoxicated. Vincente Estrqde Leon, Jr., age 35, accused for shooting a 31-year-old man woounded in the abdomen. ... More $0 (10-28-2025 - SD)

United States of America v. Caleb Graves, Robert Allen Keefe

cty, sa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with CALEB GRAVES, 33, of Del City, and ROBERT ALLEN KEEFE, 25, of Oklahoma City, have been sentenced to serve 109 months collectively in federal prison for illegal possession of ammunition and possession of an unregistered destructive device, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. On November 6, 2024, Graves was charged wit ... More $0 (10-28-2025 - OK)

United States of America v. Anthony John Crowley

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Anthony John Crowley, age 52, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer, charged with possession of child porn. ... More $0 (10-28-2025 - MN)

Iowa Migrant Movement of Justice, et al. v. Brenna Bird,n her official capacity as Attorney General of Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who used on a Constitutional law violation theory. Iowa, in Senate File 2340, criminalized the presence within its boundaries of aliens who illegally reentered the United States. Aliens violating this Act are ordered to return to the country they reentered from. The Act forbids judges from abating a state prosecution due to a pendi ... More $0 (10-28-2025 - IA)

United States of America v. Mitchell Lee Keene

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Escape from Federal Custody. (a) Whoever escapes or attempts to escape from the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, or from any institution or facility in which he is confined by direction of the Attorney General, or from any custody under or by virtue of any process issued under the law ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Kendrick Damond Frierson

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding an Intimate/Dating Partner (Misdemeanor). ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - OK)

State of North Dakota v. Eve Jennings Taalak

Fargo, North Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fleeing a peace officer, reckless endangerment, driving under the influence, DUI refusal, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, and driving under suspension. ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - ND)

Meeka Elliott v. 3M Company, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers presented the Plaintiff who who on a product liability theory. AI Overview Minnesota product liability law holds manufacturers, distributors, and retailers accountable for harm caused by defective products under a strict liability standard. This means an injured party does not need to prove negligence, but must show the product was defective (due ... More $1 (10-27-2025 - MN)

United States of America v. Evan James Oppegard

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate threats to injury. 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) is a federal law that makes it a crime to transmit a communication containing a threat to kidnap or injure another person in interstate or foreign commerce . To be convicted, the government must prove the defendant knowingly transmitted the communication with t ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - MN)

Heather Grazzini-Sims v. Norby Land Corp.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on an E.R.I.S.A. violation. ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - MN)

United States of America v. Cameron McGhee

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of cyberstalking, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2261A(2) and 2261(b)(5), and one count of threatening a federal official, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) and (b)(1)(4). ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - MO)

United States of America v. Connie L. Harvey

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of drugs. ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - MO)

United States of America v. Eddie Scott Seaton

Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of anime images depicting sexually explicit acts between minor boys and an adult female. A forensic examination also revealed a large cache of child pornography images in his computer’s “carved space,” the unallocated space within the computer’s hard drive, which contains deleted files that ha ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - AR)

Denali Summit, LLC v. Union Electric Company, d/b/a Ameren Missouri

Jefferson City, Missouri, commercial civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in an easement dispute. In 1926, the FERC issued a license to Walter Cravens to construct a dam across Missouri’s Osage River and to generate hydroelectric power from the resulting reservoir. Ameren acquired rights to the Osage Project in 1929, while the dam remained under construction. As part of the project, ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - MO)

State of Oklahoma v. Lonnie Craig Fox

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: ARSON - 2ND DEGREE Authorities said they then linked Fox to an arson incident that occurred at First Presbyterian Church on Aug. 6 where security footage depicted a man using clothes and a lighter to set fire to the church's south doors. Any person who willfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns or by the use o ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - OK)

Earl Shook v. Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates, P.C., et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff won a wrongful death claim. Plaintiff claimed that Donna Shook, was a patient of all the Defendants at Saint Francis Hospital for a total hip replacement on April 10, 2024. He claimed tht Dr. Ryan Gursky, DO, "transected" the "superficial femoral artery" and the "profunda femoral view" compromising the circulation to Mrs. Shook's le ... More $1 (10-27-2025 - OK)

United States of America v. Martin Aispuro-Lopez, Victor Manuel Felix-Ramirez

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses. Two Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States were sentenced to 17 and 22 years in federal prison following a multi-agency drug investigation that uncovered methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and multiple loaded firearms at an Albuquerque residence. There ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - NM)

State of Illinois v. Keith Finley

Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault. ... More $0 (10-27-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Margaret E. Shafe

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder of U.S. soldier husband. A Kansas woman was sentenced to 293 months in prison for the murder of her husband, a U.S. Army soldier. On February 14, 2025, a federal jury found Margaret E. Shafe, 31, guilty of murder in the second degree for killing her husband, Greg Shafe, in February 2024 at their home on t ... More $0 (10-26-2025 - KS)

United States of America v. Tyler Monson

Reno, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. A Winnemucca man was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for transporting a 15-year-old girl from Colorado to Nevada, and having sexual contact with her, after meeting each other on a socia ... More $0 (10-26-2025 - Nv)

State of Virginia v. Stephen Smerk

Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Stephen Smerk, age 53, was accused of killing Robin Lawrence, age 27, who was killed in 1994. Detectives using DNA from the crime scene were able to identify Smerk as the killer. Investigators turned to Ellen Greytak, director of bioinformatics at Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company, ... More $0 (10-26-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Leobardo Ricardo Torres-Torres

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry. A Mexican man who was in the United States illegally was sentenced yesterday to a term of time-served and remanded to the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Leobardo Ricardo Torres-Torres, 38, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to illegal reentry. The government alleged in court docume ... More $0 (10-25-2025 - MT)

State of Michigan v. John Doe

Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with auto theft. John Doe stole and ambulance from a crash scene with a patient inside and ran into another vehicle injuring the patient and the EMT who was in the ambulance. ... More $0 (10-25-2025 - MI)

United States of America v. Temika Gardner

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault on a Federal Officer. Temika Gardner, 40, of Portland, made her first appearance in federal court after being charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer. On October 23, 2025, Gardner was near the vehicle of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deportation Officers after they made a lawful ... More $0 (10-25-2025 - OR)

United States of America v. Joya M. Kinney

Omaha, Nebraska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Production of Child Pornography. Joya M. Kinney, 45, of Bellevue, Nebraska, was sentenced on September 24, 2025, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of embezzlement from an organization that received federal benefits. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Kinney to 9 months ... More $0 (10-25-2025 - NE)

Brey Mafi v. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc., et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a real property fraud claim. Fraud law refers to the legal regulations that define and punish deceptive activities used to gain an unfair or unlawful advantage, often resulting in financial loss to another person or entity . It applies to both civil and criminal contexts, punishing fraudulent acts and providing victims w ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - MN)

State of Oklahoma v. Veronica Marie Lyles

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: LARCENY OF MERCHANDISE FROM RETAILER A. Larceny of merchandise held for sale in retail or wholesale establishments shall be punishable as follows: 1. For the first or second conviction, in the event the value of the goods, edible meat, or other corporeal property which has been taken is less than ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - TU)

State of Oklahoma v. J.L.A.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: NONCONSENSUAL DISSEMINATION OF PRIVATE SEXUAL IMAGES Every person who, with knowledge of its contents, sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution, or in this state prepares, sells, exhibits, commercially distributes, gives away, offers to give away, or has in h ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - OK)

Jacquiline Pettitt v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing LLC

Chicago, Illinois, Commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a breach of Contact actions. ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Penny Evans v. Fortune International, LLC

Chicago, Illinois, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Americans with Disabilities Act violaiton theory. AI Overview The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Brief Background ... An Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violation occurs when a covered entity discriminates against a qualified individual with a disability in areas like employment, public services, or public a ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Tanisha Burress v. Western Avenue Nissan, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Racketeering (RICO) Act violation toery. AI Overview The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a federal law enacted in 1970 to combat organized crime. It allows prosecution for a "pattern of racketeering activity" involving at least two related criminal acts, known as "predicate acts," commit ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Betty Wright v. Advocate Healthcare Systems

Chicago, Illinois, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a job discrimination theory. 42 U.S. Code § 2000e-2 makes it illegal for employers, employment agencies, and labor unions to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This includes practices like refusing to hire, discharging, or otherwise discriminating against individuals in compensation, ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Bridget Krause v. PM. Mold Compnay, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory. AI Overview The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in areas like employment, public accommodations, and government services. The law aims to ensure that individuals with disabilities have ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Nasim Ghebart v. Nationwide Credit and Collection, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois, consumer law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Restrictions of Use of Telephone Equipment Act violation. AI Overview The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 restricts the use of automated calling equipment for telemarketing and other commercial purposes. Key restrictions include prohibiting unsolicited calls and texts to cell phones without prior ... More $1 (10-24-2025 - IL)

Amos C. Johnson, M.D., etc. v. Rita Elizabeth Johnson, etc.

Detroit, Michigan, civil litigation lawyers represented the the parties in interpretation of a trust. In 2000, Amos G. Johnson and his wife, Marjorie Johnson, established the Johnson Family Trust, naming their son, Appellant Amos C. Johnson, M.D., as the first successor trustee. Amos G. Johnson died in 2007, and Marjorie Johnson died in 2020. This case involves the proceedings to probate Mrs. Joh ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - MI)

Alexandria Parrotta v. Island Resort and Casino

Marquette, Michigan, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a wrongful termination theory. lexandria Parrotta sued her employer, the Island Resort and Casino, for allegedly forcing her to resign rather than accommodating her needs as a new mother. But it turns out that the Casino is owned and operated by the Hannahville ndian Community, a federally recognized Indian tribe. So the dis ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - MI)

United States of America v. Davon S. Tooley

Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. In April 2022, Tooley’s car struck a truck. Tooley asked the truck driver not to call the police because he had drugs and a firearm in his car, but the driver declined his request and called the police. Tooley fled on foot but was quickly apprehended. Officers f ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - KY)

United States of America v. Michael Osborn Thomas

Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. In 2017, Thomas pled guilty to several state charges, including the delivery of cocaine and methamphetamine, and was sentenced to prison. In late 2019, he was released on parole. Within a few weeks of his release, he had returned to drug trafficking. In June 2022—whi ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - MI)

United States of America v. Robert Elwood Matthews

Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Under federal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a criminal act, coupled with an intent to achieve the goal. In many cases, the government must also prove that at least one member of the conspiracy took an "overt act" in furtherance of ... More $0 (10-24-2025 - OH)
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