[¶1] Lincoln County School District Number Two (the District) notified Darryl Wadsworth, a continuing contract teacher in the District, that his contract was to be terminated on grounds of insubordination, incompetence, and poor work performance. Wadsworth requested a hearing before an independent hearing officer, and following that hearing, the Board of Trustees of Lincoln County School District... More...   $0 (01-16-2014 - WY)

[¶1] Lincoln County School District Number Two (the District) notified Darryl Wadsworth, a continuing contract teacher in the District, that his contract was to be terminated on grounds of insubordination, incompetence, and poor work performance. Wadsworth requested a hearing before an independent hearing officer, and following that hearing, the Board of Trustees of Lincoln County School District... More...   $0 (01-16-2014 - WY)

[¶1] Appellants Alan and Chleo Moats (Moats) sold 850 acres of farm ground, intending to retain the mineral rights for themselves. The deeds prepared by Appellee Professional Assistance, L.L.C., d/b/a Summit Title Services did not reserve the minerals, even after the Moats were made aware of the omission at closing, insisted that it be rectified, and were assured by a Summit employee that the dee... More...   $0 (01-14-2014 - WY)

For the second time in four years, we are confronted with a Federal Communications Commission effort to compel broadband providers to treat all Internet traffic the same regardless of source—or to require, as USCA Case #11-1355 Document #1474943 Filed: 01/14/2014 Page 3 of 81

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it is popularly known, “net neutrality.” In Comcast Corp. v. FCC, 600 F.3d 642 (D.C. Cir. 2010), we h... More...   $0 (01-14-2014 - DC)

{1} “All persons are born equally free, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of seeking and obtaining safety and happiness.” N.M. Const. art. II, § 4. These inherent rights, enjoyed by all New Mexicans, appear along with twenty-three other provisio... More...   $0 (01-10-2014 - NM)

[¶1] Paul A. Ligor, son of the deceased, Mary E. Hiller, appeals from an amended judgment of the Knox County Probate Court (Emery, J.) partially denying his motion for relief from a judgment pursuant to M.R. Prob. P. 60(b) and M.R. Civ. P. 60(b). In its judgment, the Probate Court: (1) found that Ligor had solicited a power of attorney when his mother “was not of sound mind” and then wrongful... More...   $0 (01-09-2014 - ME)

Appellants/defendants, OB/GYN Specialists of the Palm Beaches and Marie Morel, M.D., appeal a final judgment awarding appellees/plaintiffs $2.5 million in damages following a jury trial in a medical malpractice action. They contend that the trial court committed reversible error by precluding them from presenting argument and evidence that third trimester abortions are generally illegal in the sta... More...   $0 (01-08-2014 - FL)

Petitioners Council Tree Investors, Inc., a communications investment firm, and Bethel Native Corporation, a small wireless carrier based in Alaska (collectively, “Council Tree”), seek our review of two orders issued by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “the Commission”)—the D Block Waiver Order (the “Waiver Order”) issued in 2007 and the Waiver Reconsideration Orde... More...   $0 (01-03-2014 - CO)

Respondent Hannon Security Services (“Hannon”) terminated appellant Jane Kay Dukowitz from her position as a security officer. In this appeal, Dukowitz presents two legal questions for our consideration. The first question is whether the public-policy exception to the employment-at-will rule applies to a termination resulting from an employee’s application for unemployment benefits. The seco... More...   $0 (01-02-2014 - MN)

Relator Toni Dykhoff fell and dislocated her left patella while attending a required training session at the general office of her employer, Xcel Energy. Dykhoff filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The compensation judge held a hearing, found that Dykhoff’s injury did not arise out of and in the course of her employment, and denied Dykhoff’s claim. Dykhoff appealed to the Worke... More...   $0 (12-26-2013 - MN)

Rodney E. Donkin and Mary E. Donkin, a married couple, executed a revocable trust in 1988 (the Family Trust) as part of their estate planning, naming their four children as equal primary beneficiaries after they both had died.1 Rodney died in 2002. Shortly before her death in 2005, Mary executed a second amendment to the Family Trust instrument (hereafter the Trust‟s Second

1 When we subs... More...   $0 (12-26-2013 - CA)

[¶1] Jeffrey M. Cheskin appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Belfast, Worth, J.) granting Kristin L. Gordon’s motion to modify the custody order concerning the parties’ two minor daughters. The effect of the order was to deprive Cheskin of overnight visitation with the girls. Cheskin argues that several of the court’s factual findings were clearly erroneous, and that the court err... More...   $0 (12-24-2013 - ME)

This is the latest appeal arising from the City of San Diego's (the City) infamous underfunding of its employment retirement system. In 2002 the Board of Directors (board) of the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System (SDCERS) approved the City's proposal to modify the funding plan to delete the potential of a balloon payment if the underfunded ratio fell to a certain level, in exchange for t... More...   $0 (12-23-2013 - CA)

David G. Stuart sued Jeannie Beddell, Pet Adoption League, Inc., Virginia Robertson, Petsmart, Inc. and Petsmart Charities, Inc. on the following theories:

Issue # 1.
Issue: STRICT LIABILITY (LIABLE)
Filed by: STUART, DAVID G
Filed Date: 09/26/2012
Party Name: Disposition Information:

Defendant: BEDDELL, JEANNIE
Disposed: DISMISSED - WITH PREJUDICE, 11/... More...   $0 (12-23-2013 - OK)

The City of Lincoln Center (City) cited Farmway Co-Op, Inc., and Farmway Storage #1, LLC (together "Farmway") for violating municipal noise and nuisance ordinances. The violations arose out of Farmway's operation of a grain elevator facility inside the city limits. After the municipal court convicted Farmway under both ordinances, the district court reversed the convictions, holding the ordinances... More...   $0 (12-20-2013 - KS)

Lanty Wylie and Patricia Wylie appeal the trial court’s orders denying their motion for summary judgment and granting Appellees, Hide-A-Way Lake Club, Inc.’s and Hide-A-Way Lake Community Church’s, respective motions for summary judgment as well as its awards of attorney’s fees to Appellees. The Wylies raise six issues on appeal. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Hide-A-Way Lake is a res... More...   $0 (12-20-2013 - TX)

The Plaintiffs in this lawsuit are three gay and lesbian couples who wish to marry, but are currently unable to do so because the Utah Constitution prohibits same-sex marriage. The Plaintiffs argue that this prohibition infringes their rights to due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The State of Utah defends its laws and maintains that a... More...   $0 (12-20-2013 - UT)

On March 28, 2002, The Old Line Life Insurance Company of America (“Old Line”)1 issued a $100,000 life insurance policy to David Ray Hood (“Hood”), who had named his son, Erik Christopher Hood (“Erik”), as the sole beneficiary under the policy. When Hood died on September 17, 2007, Erik, who was sixteen years old, left his father’s residence in order to reside with his older half-sis... More...   $0 (12-19-2013 - TN)

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition filed by the maternal grandmother of a child born out of wedlock in which the grandmother sought to terminate the parental rights of the biological father and to adopt the child. After the magistrate court entered an order granting the petition, the biological father intervened and successfully moved to set aside the order. The grandmother’... More...   $0 (12-18-2013 - ID)

The question on appeal is whether the district court erred in enforcing an arbitration clause in an attorney-client engagement letter as to malpractice and unfair practice claims brought by a former client under Maine law.

The client is Douglas Bezio, who sued his former law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson (BSSN) and individual defendants, alleging malpractice and violati... More...   $0 (12-16-2013 - ME)

Kody Brown, Christine Brown, Janelle Brown, Meri Browan and Robyn Sullivan sued Gary Hebert, Jeffrey R. Buhman and Mark Shurtleff on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 seeking to prevent them from enforcing Utah's prohibition against co-habitation. The Browns are a polgyamous family that were the subject of TLC's reality series "Sister Wives". They claimed that the phrase "or coh... More...   $0 (12-15-2013 - UT)

Kyle Hunter filed a discrimination complaint alleging that CBS Broadcasting refused to hire him as a weather news anchor because of his gender and age. CBS filed a motion to strike the complaint pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 arguing that its selection of a newscaster qualified as an act in furtherance of its free speech rights. The trial court denied the motion, concluding tha... More...   $0 (12-11-2013 - CA)

Jerry L. Hamblin and Ricochet Energy, Inc. appeal a summary judgment, rendered in favor of Thomas A. Lamont, enforcing a contractual indemnity provision. We reverse the judgment of the trial court and render judgment in favor of Jerry L. Hamblin and Ricochet Energy, Inc.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Because many of the historical facts in this case are set forth in our previous ... More...   $0 (12-11-2013 - TX)

2 In this professional negligence action, plaintiff alleged that defendant, an
3 attorney who represented her in an adoption proceeding, committed malpractice by
4 arranging to serve the birth mother with the adoption petition by publication. Defendant
moved to dismiss the complaint under ORCP 21 A(9)1 5 on the ground that it was untimely
under the statute of limitations for profes... More...   $0 (12-11-2013 - OR)

Marva Sneed pursued her claim for survivor benefits in the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) for eight years. After receiving an adverse decision from the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“Board”), Ms. Sneed promptly contacted an attorney to represent her in an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”). Only one day before the deadline to file... More...   $0 (12-10-2013 - DC)