In 2009, Governor Bill Richardson appointed District Judge Sheri Raphaelson
17 to fill a vacancy in Division V of the First Judicial District Court created when then
18 District Judge Tim Garcia was appointed to the New Mexico Court of Appeals,
19 leaving an unexpired term of office. A year later, as required by Article VI, Section
17 See New Mexico Secretary of State Official Ele... More...   $0 (09-16-2015 - NM)

R.T.B. (“the mother”) appeals the trial court’s judgment terminating her parental rights to her children, S.S.B. and R.D., III.1 R.D., Jr. (“the father”) separately appeals the trial court’s judgment terminating his parental rights to R.D., III. We affirm the trial court’s judgment as to both the mother and the father.
1 W.B., the father of S.S.B., executed an affidavit of voluntary relinquish... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - TX)

SD3, LLC and its subsidiary, SawStop, LLC (together, “SawStop”), contend that several major table-saw manufacturers conspired to boycott SawStop’s safety technology and corrupt a private safety-standard-setting process, all with the aim of keeping that technology off the market. Consequently, SawStop sued nearly two dozen saw manufacturers and affiliated entities, alleging that they violated § 1 o... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - VA)

Ken Snow worked as an operator for the Navajo Refinery. His duties as an operator included performance of a “turn-around,” a “process by which the refinery is shut down and all the parts and connections are cleaned or replaced.” During a turn-around on January 20, 2009, a hose assembly came loose and struck Snow, causing “serious, life-changing injuries.”
{3} On August 15, 2011, Snow and his w... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - NM)

Litherland was the daughter of Etta J. Ideus Jurgens (Etta), who died on January 2, 2013, as a resident of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska. Jurgens and Lenners were Etta’s stepchildren. Each is a beneficiary under Etta’s will dated November 4, 2004, which was offered for probate in the county court. Under the terms of the will, Litherland was to receive certain real estate if it was owned by Etta ... More...   $0 (09-12-2015 - NE)

Appellant A.S.D. (Mother) appeals from the trial court’s termination of her parental relationships with S.D. and I.D., Daughter and Son, ages six and four respectively at the time of trial. Father B.D. does not appeal from the trial court’s termination of his rights. Mother does not challenge one of the grounds of termination on which the trial court based its judgment, but she does challenge
... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - TX)

Since 1975, we have held that provisions precluding government employees
4 from seeking elective office are constitutionally permissible personnel rules
5 regulating conflicts of interest. See State ex rel. Gonzales v. Manzagol, 1975-NMSC-
6 002, ¶¶ 18-19, 87 N.M. 230, 531 P.2d 1203. These personnel rules act as conditions
7 of employment, and therefore do not constitute added qual... More...   $0 (09-09-2015 - NM)

This case involves Antonio Garcia-Dorantes’ procedurally defaulted claim challenging the constitutionality of the jury selection computer program in Kent County, Michigan. In September 2001, a jury convicted Garcia-Dorantes of murder in the second degree and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder. Before his trial started, Garcia-Dorantes failed to raise a Six... More...   $0 (09-06-2015 - MI)

In this three-year high-stakes litigation—a case that “[t]he [medical] industry is watching,” Ameritox assured the jury—the parties tried various state statutory and common law unfair competition claims predicated upon the alleged violation of two federal statutes that provide no private right of action. The parties, however, did not realize that it was an open question whether or not any of the n... More...   $0 (09-06-2015 - )

In 1989, the Supreme Court held
that courts should apply de novo review in suits challenging
denials of employee benefits governed by the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, better known as
ERISA. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101, 115
(1989); see 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1). But there was a catch. If the
benefit plan provided expressly for a differ... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - IL)

Some decades ago, a substantial
oil spill occurred on the Salem, Massachusetts property of
plaintiff Peabody Essex Museum ("the Museum"). That pollution
eventually migrated to the land of a down gradient neighbor,
Heritage Plaza, which discovered the subsurface contamination in
2003. Heritage Plaza notified the Museum in late 2003, and the
Museum gave prompt notice to both ... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - MA)

Defendant General Floor Industries, Inc. is a flooring store located at 4 Bellecor Drive, New Castle, Delaware.1 Defendant Commons Boulevard, L.P. is the owner of the property (collectively “Defendants”).2 Plaintiff Danny J.
Schnares filed the underlying complaint seeking to recover damages for personal
injuries he sustained as a result of a slip and fall on ice in the Defendants’ park... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - DE)

The following facts are derived from the trial court’s order. On February 4, 2011, Morgan was involved in an altercation with another student, A.M., on a school bus. During that altercation, A.M. punched Morgan in the face. The bus driver reported the incident to the defendant on February 7.
2
The school principal, Barry Albert, downloaded the bus driver’s report on February 8 and m... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - NH)

Danelle Hollingsworth was detained for booking at the police station in St.
Ann, Missouri, after an arrest for stealing wine coolers from a convenience store at
a gas station. When she refused a directive from police and corrections officers to
change from her street clothes into an orange jumpsuit, a police officer stunned her
with a Taser device to encourage compliance.
Holli... More...   $0 (09-03-2015 - MO)

On November 26, 2013, Allen moved to correct the appraised value of her property in Lindale, Texas. The Smith County Appraisal Review Board issued an adverse determination on March 12, 2014, and Allen received the Review Board’s order on March 14, 2014. Allen filed her appeal from the Review Board’s decision on April 28, 2014, well before the sixty day limit provided for filing such an appeal.1 Ho... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - TX)

Following a jury trial, the trial court signed a decree in which it (1) terminated the parental rights of appellant, S.T. (“Mother”), respecting two of her children, N.T. and M.T. (“the children”),1 and (2) appointed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (“the Department”) permanent managing conservator of the children.2 In five issues on appeal, Mother contends the evidence is le... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - TX)

Following a jury trial, the trial court signed a decree in which it (1) terminated the parental rights of appellant, S.T. (“Mother”), respecting two of her children, N.T. and M.T. (“the children”),1 and (2) appointed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (“the Department”) permanent managing conservator of the children.2 In five issues on appeal, Mother contends the evidence is le... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - TX)

J.R. appeals the trial court’s final order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. On appeal, he presents two issues. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
J.R. is the father of J.R.1,1 born May 21, 2005. The mother of the child, L.R., is not a party to this appeal. On September 5, 2013, the Department of Family and Protective Services (the Department) filed an original petition for protection ... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - )

In 2003, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court grew troubled by the frequency of meritless professional malpractice claims filed in the state system. To address that concern, the Court amended the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure to require malpractice plaintiffs or their attorneys to file a certificate of merit (“COM”) within sixty days of bringing suit. Failure to comply conferred upon a defendant... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - PA)

In January 2012, Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCPL) condemned a power line easement bisecting two tracts of undeveloped agricultural land in southern Johnson County. The land was owned by the trusts for Daniel and Evelyn Strong (the Strongs). The easement occupied approximately 12 out of a combined 460 acres. Court-appointed appraisers awarded the Strongs $96,465 in damages. The Strongs ap... More...   $0 (08-31-2015 - KS)

In October 2003, the State charged Jason Mashaney with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child based on allegations made by the mother of Mashaney's 5-year-old daughter. The State later amended the complaint to add an alternative count of aggravated indecent liberties.
The district court appointed Sarah Sweet-McKinnon of the Sedgwi... More...   $0 (08-31-2015 - KS)

Cain owns 10 contiguous parcels of land in Custer County, Nebraska, which total over 1,093 acres. Approximately 70 percent of the property, or 756 acres, is irrigated “native grass” upon which Cain grazes cattle. The remainder of the property is nonirrigated grassland.
- 733 Nebraska advaNce sheets 291 Nebraska reports CAIN v. CUSTER CTY. BD. OF EQUAL. Cite as 291 Neb. 730 In 2012, as the resu... More...   $0 (08-29-2015 - NE)

In this appeal, we determine whether an
ordinance imposing restrictions on the right of sex offenders to
reside in the city of Lynn (city) is prohibited by the Home Rule
Amendment, art. 89, § 6, of the Amendments to the Massachusetts
Constitution, and the Home Rule Procedures Act, G. L. c. 43B,
§ 13. The plaintiffs, who represent a certified class of sex
offenders su... More...   $0 (08-28-2015 - MA)

On July 27, 2009, Plaintiff, John Strohecker, who is a non-Indian resident of Riverton, Wyoming, was traveling southbound on Wyoming Highway 789 from his home in Riverton to Lander, Wyoming. As Plaintiff passed the parking lot of the Northern Arapaho 789 Smokeshop/Casino, Defendant Gary C’Hair pulled out of the parking lot and struck the vehicle Mr. Strohecker was driving. Mr. C’Hair is an enro... More...   $0 (08-26-2015 - WY)

Where a large musical-instrument retailer pressures
individual guitar manufacturers to set the lowest prices at
which the manufacturers will permit any retailer to advertise
the manufacturers’ products—and each manufacturer
acquiesces—can we infer the manufacturers conspired among
themselves to fix prices?
Plaintiffs ask us to answer this question in the affirmative.
Th... More...   $0 (08-25-2015 - CA)