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Guadalupe County v. Woodlake Partners, Inc. Guadalupe County Texas

Guadalupe County appeals the trial court’s order denying the motion for summary judgment Guadalupe County filed asserting governmental immunity. Guadalupe County contends the trial court erred in denying the motion because the evidence established as a matter of law that any damage to the value of the appellees’ property was proximately caused by the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (... More...   $0 (04-24-2017 - )

STATE OF IOWA vs. DARIUS A. CRAWLEY

For a few days prior to the June 16, 2015 robbery, Lashun Brown said that
her boyfriend and roommate, Montavis Keller, had slept with his handgun
“[b]ecause we heard we was supposed to get robbed” by Antonio Gantt, whom
both Brown and Keller knew. However, Brown asked Keller to move the gun to
the dresser because she “didn’t feel safe sleeping with it in the bed.”
After... More...
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The People of the State of Colorado v. Oliver Benton Hyde The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado

On February 10, 2015, just after midnight, Aurora Police Department (“APD”)
officers responded to an accident at Iliff Avenue and I-225, where the defendant had
driven his pickup truck into a light pole, despite seemingly safe driving conditions.
One of the first officers to arrive on the scene found Hyde unconscious, pinned in the
driver’s seat, with blood gurgling from his m... More...
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AYFER YALINCAK, HAKAN YALINCAK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

In June 2006, Yalincak pled guilty to bank and wire fraud charges
stemming from a scheme to defraud investors in a sham hedge fund that
Yalincak purported to manage. On April 11, 2007, the district court sentenced
Yalincak to concurrent terms of 42 months’ imprisonment followed by
concurrent terms of supervised release and ordered him to pay $4,182,000 in
restitution to his vic... More...
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL PALMER, ALSO KNOWN AS TONY, ALSO KNOWN AS KNOT, ALSO KNOWN AS JAMES, United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

On direct appeal, the court affirmed appellant’s convictions of conspiracy and related offenses involving presiding over the large-scale distribution and sale of unlawful drugs in
3 Washington, D.C., in the late 1980s. United States v. Harris, et al., 959 F.2d 246 (D.C. Cir.), cert. denied 506 U.S. 933 (1992). Appellant thereafter filed a series of motions collaterally attacking his convictio... More...
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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ALEXANDER JOHNSON AND MICHAEL F. WILLIAMS Estes Kefauver Federal Building - Nashville, Tennessee

On February 12, 2015, the Knox County Grand Jury charged both of the defendants with two counts each of the November 2014 aggravated rape of C.C.1 As is relevant to this appeal, the presentment lists as witnesses C.C., Bridget Boland, and cellular telephone service providers New Cingular Wireless/AT&T Wireless and Sprint/Nextel Communications. Witnesses Anna Lawn and Natalie Tavares were later ad... More...   $0 (04-14-2017 - TN)

Guy Leach and Ashliegh Leach v. GS Legacy Corner, LLC; Inland American Apartment Management, LLC and Inland American Midwest City Legacy Corner, LLC Oklahoma County Oklahoma Courthouse - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, OK - Guy Leach and Ashliegh Leach v. GS Legacy Corner, LLC; Inland American Apartment Management, LLC and Inland American Midwest City Legacy Corner, LLC


Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: Leach, Guy
Filed Date: 09/06/2013
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: GS Legacy Corner LLC Disposed: DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE, 0... More...
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Poet, LLC v. State Air Resources Board

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Health & Saf. Code,
§ 38500 et seq.) established the first comprehensive greenhouse gas regulatory program
in the United States. Its goal is to progressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990
levels by 2020. The State Air Resources Board (ARB) was charged with achieving this
goal. One of its actions was promulgating the low... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. WILLIAM JOSEPH KELLY III

On January 6, 2013, Kelly, who was 18 years old at the time, and his friend, Lee King, were drinking at a friend's house. At around 3:30 a.m., the two left, with Kelly driving. On the way home, Kelly approached a sharp turn on a gravel road. Although Kelly applied the brakes and turned the steering wheel, the truck slid on the gravel. The truck hit a row of trees, breaking branches 4 to 5 feet off... More...   $0 (04-10-2017 - KS)

Bellevue Farm Owners Association v. Chad Stevens

To establish abuse of process, the claimant must prove (1) an
ulterior purpose to accomplish an object not within the proper scope of the process, (2)
an act not proper in the regular prosecution of proceedings, and (3) harm caused by the
abuse of process. Chad Stevens filed a counterclaim against Mark Baute for abuse of
process. Stevens alleged as damages that he incurred attorney... More...
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Manteca Unified School District v. Reclamation District NO. 17

At its core, this case involves the interpretation, and application of Water Code
section 51200 and articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution, as approved
by California voters in 1996 as Proposition 218, and the interplay between them.1

Defendants and cross-complainants Reclamation District No. 17 and Governing Board of
Reclamation District 17 (collectively Rec... More...
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Jerry C. Johnson and Jacob Johnson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

This appeal arises from a suit brought by Jerry C. Johnson seeking declarations
construing the terms of two insurance policies following an automobile accident in which Jerry’s
son, Jacob, a minor at the time, was injured while Jerry was driving.1 See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.
Code §§ 37.001–.011. Jerry sued State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, which had
issued Jerry an aut... More...
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ANDRE D. BAILEY v. STATE OF KANSAS

When he was just 17 years old, Bailey and three of his friends, DaQuan Dean, Cheryl Starr, and Sade James, were involved in the aggravated burglary and robbery of Ricky Stewart and Meagon Hicks. Prior to leaving the scene, Bailey fired a number of shots at Stewart and Hicks' closed front door. Several of the shots hit Stewart and he died later that day from the injuries.

Bailey was char... More...
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OLTMANS CONSTRUCTION CO. v. BAYSIDE INTERIORS, INC.

This appeal presents for interpretation an indemnity provision in a construction
subcontract providing indemnity to a general contractor for injury claims arising out of
the scope of the subcontractor’s work “except to the extent the claims arise out of, pertain
to, or relate to the active negligence or willful misconduct” of the general contractor.
Does this provision preclude the... More...
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State of Wisconsin v. Jeffrey P. Lepsch Jeffrey Lepsch convicted of homicide

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A jury found Lepsch guilty of killing two individuals
during an armed robbery in La Crosse, Wisconsin.2 Lepsch was
sentenced to conse... More...
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Jesse Brown v. SAIF Corporation

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is
whether claimant is entitled to benefits for his “combined
condition” claim. Under ORS 656.005(7)(a)(B), a “combined
condition” exists when an “otherwise compensable injury”
combines with a preexisting condition, and the otherwise
compensable injury remains the major contributing cause
of that combined condition.1 In this case... More...
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In the interest of R.S. and J.S., children

This is an appeal from an order in which the trial court terminated the parental
rights of the parents of R.S. and J.S. after a de novo hearing. The children’s mother
appeals. We affirm.
The mother presents six issues for review. In her first five issues, the mother
challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the
termination of her rights and the app... More...
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The People v. Ignacio Garcia

According to the Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM), one in
every five girls and one in every seven boys is sexually abused by the time they
reach adulthood. Among adults, one in six women and one in 33 men suffer
sexual assault. (CSOM, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Fact Sheet: What You Need to
Know About Sex Offenders (2008) p. 1 needtoknow_fs.pdf> [as of M... More...
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STEPHEN SHAWN KEYES vs. STATE OF IOWA Stephen Shawn Keyes was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the fire-related deaths of his wife and two-year-old son in their rural Springville home during the Christmas season of 1996.

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In the early morning hours of December 26, 1996, Keyes’s wife, Sandra,
and two-year-old son, Joshua, died in a house fire. The State accused Keyes of
setting the... More...   $0 (03-24-2017 - IA)

JAZMINA GERARD et al. v. ORANGE COAST MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER

INTRODUCTION
Three health care workers sued their hospital employer in this putative class
and private attorney general enforcement action for alleged Labor Code violations and
related claims. In this appeal, their primary complaint is the hospital illegally allowed its
health care employees to waive their second meal periods on shifts longer than 12 hours.
A statute requires t... More...
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Ray F. Kastle v. Salem Hospital

This appeal concerns the application of the statute
of limitations to a complaint for medical malpractice involving
newly added defendants. Plaintiff alleged that negligent
treatment of low sodium levels in his blood serum caused
him to develop a neurological disorder, central pontine
myelinolysis (CPM). Invoking ORCP 21 A(9),1 defendants
moved to dismiss the complaint as b... More...
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Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc., d/b/a "TPC Southwind", et al.

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This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court‘s grant of a motion to dismiss for failure to... More...
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Donald Laird v. Moncia Benton

Monica Benton sued Donald Laird for negligence to recover veterinary charges she incurred after Laird’s dog, which was off leash in a public park, attacked Benton’s dog and tore off part of her dog’s ear. The jury found Laird liable for negligence and awarded Benton $717.13, the amount she incurred in
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veterinary charges to repair her dog’s ear. In two issues, Laird challenges the trialMore...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CAMERON HOWARD

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The relevant facts are uncontested. On October 19, 2006, Cameron Howard pled guilty to one count o... More...
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Greg Hill of Furnas County et al. v. State of Nebraska and Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

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Under the Nebraska Ground Water Management and
Protection Act, the DNR is required to conduct an annual forecast
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