¶1 Original jurisdiction is assumed. Okla. Const. Art. 7 § 4. The Oklahoma Publishing Company is directed to file a motion requesting access to the referenced court file pursuant to the Open Records Act, 51 O.S. 2011 § 24A.1 et seq. The Honorable Lisa Hammond, or any other assigned judge, is directed to conduct a hearing to determine all pending matters before the court in FD-2004-6310.

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1. A municipality may terminate a nonconforming use of land in accordance with Minn. Stat. § 462.357, subds. 1d-1e (2012) or Minn. Stat. § 465.01 (2012). But a

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municipality lacks the authority to terminate a nonconforming use by requiring the property owner to obtain a conditional-use permit to continue the use and then revoking the conditional-use permit. Respondent therefore la... More...   $0 (12-04-2013 - MN)

Paula Hartong ("Appellant"), proceeding in an individual capacity and as a personal representative of her twenty-one-year-old daughter, Amanda Wilkinson's

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("Wilkinson") estate, appeals, inter alia, the lower court's denial of her motion to amend her complaint to include comparative negligence. Because the lower court reversibly erred when it denied her motion to amend, requiring a ... More...   $0 (12-04-2013 - FL)

The Department of Revenue, on behalf of R.S.M., appeals the final judgment of paternity and support ordering the father, B.J.M., to pay child support to the mother, R.S.M., for their child, L.W.M. Competent substantial evidence does not

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support the final judgment. Consequently, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

In November 2010, the Department filed its peti... More...   $0 (12-04-2013 - F:)

More than 70 residents of a 186-space mobilehome park sued the owner for failing to properly maintain the park’s physical improvements and common facilities, including the park’s sewer system, water pressure, electrical system, and matters related to security such * Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 8.1105(b) and 8.1110, this opinion is certified for publication with the exception o... More...   $0 (12-03-2013 - CA)

In this appeal of a judgment granting a final divorce decree, Liudmila A. Yuryeva contends in five issues the judgment should be reversed and she should be granted a new trial because (1) McManus was not a resident of Texas when filing

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for divorce as required by section 6.301 of the Texas Family Code, 1 and therefore the venue was improper; (2) the trial court did not have jurisdic... More...   $0 (12-02-2013 - TX)

In December 2011, the City of Live Oak (the City) passed an ordinance prohibiting the cultivation of marijuana for any purpose within the City. Plaintiffs sued, contending the ordinance violated the Compassionate Use Act (CUA) (Health & Saf. Code,1 § 11362.5), the Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) (§ 11362.7 et seq.), equal

1 Further undesignated statutory references are to the Health and... More...   $0 (12-01-2013 - CA)

The legal questions presented by this case relate to the operation of Minnesota’s minimum-compensation statute, Minn. Stat. § 117.187 (2012), which provides a mechanism for compensating property owners who “must relocate� following the condemnation of their real property. Appellant George W. Cameron, IV, who had his

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commercial property taken by respondent County of Dakota (â... More...   $0 (11-27-2013 - MN)

We have before us a petition for writ of prohibition to restrain a circuit court’s exercise of jurisdiction on a petition to modify a Michigan child support order, where Michigan no longer has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the order; the party seeking modification is a Florida resident; and the opposing party is a nonresident who objects to Florida’s assumption of jurisdiction. The f... More...   $0 (11-26-2013 - FL)

¶1 This case concerns the monthly subsidy provided by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) to adoptive parents of special needs children. The controversy in this regard stems from a decision by DHS to pay foster parents of special needs children a higher subsidy amount than is paid to adoptive parents. DHS has set the monthly foster placement subsidy at $365.00 per child, while capping... More...   $0 (11-26-2013 - OK)

¶1 Claimant Patricia Yvonne Carney seeks review of an order of a three-judge panel of the Workers' Compensation Court, which affirmed the trial court's finding that her injury was not compensable. The single issue on appeal is whether Claimant sustained an accidental personal injury arising out of and in the course of her employment. After a review of the record and applicable law, we find that t... More...   $0 (11-22-2013 - OK)

By petition for an extraordinary writ, Esteban G. (father) asks us to vacate the trial court’s order (1) for an evaluation of him under the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) and (2) setting a selection and implementation hearing pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 366.262 as to his daughter, five-year-old Suhey G. (Suhey). Father contends that the court abused... More...   $0 (11-21-2013 - CA)

¶1 Plaintiff/Appellee, Christopher Luster (hereinafter "Luster") pled guilty to Sexual Assault in the Second Degree on April 22, 1992, in Carson County, Texas. According to the Defendant/Appellant, The State of Oklahoma, ex rel., Department of Corrections (hereinafter "Department") the crime would constitute Lewd or Indecent Proposals/Acts to a Child under Oklahoma law; a crime which is covered u... More...   $0 (11-19-2013 - OK)

Defendant Vicki Dillard Crowe was convicted by a jury of eight counts of mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 2, and eight counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2, for her participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. The district court sentenced Crowe to a term of imprisonment of sixty months and ordered her to make restitution in the amount of $2,408,142.37.More...   $0 (11-18-2013 - CO)

Cooter Austin sued the Emergency Medical Services Authority and Paramedics Plus, LLC on wrongful termination theories claiming:

1. Plaintiff Cooter Austin is a resident of Tulsa, Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma.

2. Defendant Emergency Medical Services Authority, more commonly referred to as “EMSAâ€�, is a public trust authority of the City of Oklahoma City government, Oklahoma Coun... More...   $0 (11-17-2013 - OK)

[¶1] Brittany A. Bulkley appeals from a judgment entered in the District Court (Bangor, Jordan, M.) granting Chad E. Bulkley’s motion to modify the parental rights and responsibilities established in the parties’ 2010 divorce judgment. Brittany argues that the court abused its discretion in granting Chad primary residence of their minor child because it erred in considering the parties’ res... More...   $0 (11-14-2013 - ME)

Following a preliminary hearing, on June 15, 2011, Anthony Scott (Scott) was held to answer to one count of second degree robbery (Pen. Code, §§ 211-212.5, count one). Subsequently, on June 23, 2011, the Santa Clara County District Attorney filed an information in which Scott was charged with one count of second degree robbery (§§ 211-212.5, count one),1 one misdemeanor count of grand theft (Â... More...   $0 (11-14-2013 - CA)

Home at Last Adoption Agency, Inc., (“the Adoption Agency�) appeals a final judgment dismissing its second amended petition to terminate the parental rights of Appellee, V.M., to his biological daughter. Because the trial court erroneously concluded that our prior opinion in this case precluded it from finding that Appellee had abandoned the child, we reverse.

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The procedural an... More...   $0 (11-14-2013 - FL)

Are the proceeds of a term life policy community property or separate property of the spouse who pays the final premium? Our answer is an all too familiar one: it depends. We hold that the characterization “will depend on the … premium for the final term of the policy.â€� (Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Ensley (9th Cir. 1999) 174 F.3d 977, 983 (Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co.).) The effect of th... More...   $0 (11-13-2013 - CA)

Petitioner Michelle K., an incompetent person, by George K.,1 her conservator, seeks writ relief to prevent the trial court from conducting an evidentiary hearing on (1) a habeas corpus petition the Orange County Public Defender (Public Defender) filed on Michelle‟s behalf to obtain her release from Fairview Developmental Center (Fairview), and (2) a periodic judicial review on whether Michelleâ... More...   $0 (11-13-2013 - CA)

Jose Hernandez, Jr., and Salvador Hernandez were killed by a motorist while they were performing road construction in Oklahoma. Their representative sued their employer, Duit Construction Company, and the motorist and alleged a substantive due process claim against a host of Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) employees. All ODOT employees except the director and the resident engineer on ... More...   $0 (11-13-2013 - OK)

¶1 In this case we decide whether 43 O.S.2001, § 110(D) authorized the trial court to order Joe and Jean Fulsom (intervening defendants/appellants/paternal grandparents) to pay attorney fees to Denise Dianne Fulsom (plaintiff/ex-wife/appellee/mother) and Bodine Fulsom (defendant/ex-husband/appellee/father), in a post-divorce-decree child custody modification proceeding. We hold § 110(D) does not p... More...   $0 (11-12-2013 - OK)

In this appeal, environmental organization Sierra Club seeks judicial review of the decision of the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to issue an air emission source construction permit to Sunflower Electric Power Corporation (Sunflower) for the construction of an 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant, referred to as Holcomb 2, at the site of Sunflower's existing pl... More...   $0 (11-12-2013 - KS)

Adam Simmons was seriously injured in a gasoline fire while at work. He sued his employer for negligently failing to provide him with a reasonably safe workplace. The district court denied his claim based on the common-law assumption of risk doctrine, which can bar recovery when an employee who knows of a dangerous situation voluntarily exposes himself or herself to that danger. The Court of Appea... More...   $0 (11-08-2013 - KS)

Petitioner Michelle K., an incompetent person, by George K.,1 her conservator, seeks writ relief to prevent the trial court from conducting an evidentiary hearing on (1) a habeas corpus petition the Orange County Public Defender (Public Defender) filed on Michelle‟s behalf to obtain her release from Fairview Developmental Center (Fairview), and (2) a periodic judicial review on whether Michelleâ... More...   $0 (11-08-2013 - CA)