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United States of America v. Paul Petersen

Fayetteville, Arkansas conspiracy charge criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Paul Peterson, who was charged with Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for Financial Gain; Conspiracy to Smuggle Illegal Aliens for Commercial Advantage and Private Financial Gain and Aiding and Abetting in Encouraging and Inducing Illegal Entry for Financial Gain.

Paul Petersen, age 45, of Mesa, A... More...
   $0 (12-08-2020 - AR)

Amanda Robinson v. Steven Robinson

Enid, Oklahoma family law lawyers represented the parties in a dispute over modification of visitation filed by the father.

¶1 Steven Robinson (Father) appeals a decision of the district court denying his application to modify his visitation schedule with his minor children. On review, we find that the court incorrectly applied the Gibbons test in these circumstances, and reverse. Becaus... More...
   $0 (12-02-2020 - OK)

STATE OF OHIO vs. GERRY PITTS

Cincinnati, Ohio - Assault and battery criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Gerry Pitts with appealing his conviction, arguing in two assignments of error that (1) the trial court erred in applying the wrong version of Ohio’s self-defense law, and (2) his conviction was against the manifest weight of the evidence.



Wi... More...
   $0 (12-02-2020 - TN)

Walter Ramone Ford vs State of Florida

Milton, FL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Ramone Ford charged with one count of second-degree murder with a firearm, two counts of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, and one count of discharging a firearm from a vehicle within 1,000 feet of a person.




Ford was one of two gunmen involved in a d... More...
   $0 (11-30-2020 - FL)

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health Services, et al. v. Sylvia Hernandez Kaufmann

In this interlocutory appeal of a preliminary injunction, the dispositive issue is whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23) gives Medicaid patients a right to challenge, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a State’s determination that a health care provider is not “qualified” within the meaning of § 1396a(a)(23). Our decision rests primarily on two independent bases: (1) the Supreme Court’s decision in O’Bannon v. To... More...   $0 (11-25-2020 - TX)

United States of America v. City of Meriden, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut civil rights lawyers.

The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut today announced an agreement with the City of Meriden, Connecticut to resolve allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) by denying the application of the Omar Islamic Center to establish a mosq... More...
   $0 (11-06-2020 - CT)

STATE OF MISSOURI v. TYLER J. GATES

Kansas City, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Tyler J. Gates with appealing his convictions of felony murder in the second degree predicated on the forcible felony of robbery and armed criminal actions.






Gates does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions
of... More...
   $0 (11-03-2020 - MO)

Signs for Jesus v. Town of Pembroke, NH, et al.

The Town of Pembroke, New
Hampshire, bans the use of electronic signs in all of its zoning
districts except its commercial district (C1) and certain nearby
areas. In April 2015, Hillside Baptist Church -- located outside
of these areas -- applied for a permit to install an electronic
sign on its property, which would transmit messages provided by
Signs for Jesus, a nonprofi... More...
   $0 (10-21-2020 - NH)

Jordan Allen Temme v. State of Indiana

Evansville, Indiana - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Jordan Allen Temme charged with two counts of Level 1 felony rape (Counts 1 and 2) and one count of Level 3 felony criminal confinement.




[5] In June 2016, the State charged Temme under the instant cause, No. 82D03-
1606-F1-3715 (Cause F1-3715), with two counts of ... More...
   $0 (10-20-2020 - IN)

In the Interest of J.K., a Minor: Merle Glenn Kirkley v. Jackson County Department of Child Protection Services and J.L.M.K., a Minor, by and through his Next Friend, LaQuita Reed

Pascagoula, MS - Custody lawyer represented Merle Kirkley with appealing the termination of his parental rights.




¶2. Kirkley and Cierra Cavanagh had a child, “John,” who was born in November 2014.

On April 17, 2015, a social worker for the Jackson County Department of Child Protection
Services (CPS) conducted a welfare che... More...
   $0 (10-17-2020 - MS)

In re S.S., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law, Riverside County Department of Social Services v. T.S.

This appeal poses the question whether a juvenile court may, consistent with due
process and the dependency statutes, terminate the parental rights of a noncustodial father
who seeks custody even though the state detained and removed the child based only on
allegations against mother and the court found giving father custody would be
detrimental based on problems arising from his p... More...
   $0 (10-04-2020 - CA)

Arash Alborzi v. University of Southern California

Plaintiffs Arash Alborzi, M.D., and Arash Alborzi, M.D.,
Inc. sued defendants University of Southern California, Keck
School of Medicine of USC, and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
(collectively, USC); as well as Concord Hospitalist Group and
Elevate Health Group. Alborzi and his corporation were part of a
panel of on-call physicians at Verdugo Hills Hospital. Plaintiffs
alleged... More...
   $0 (10-01-2020 - CA)

John Tufts v. The State of Texas

Denton, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Injury to a Child, Elderly or Disabled Individual


A. Madison’s Upbringing in Poland
This case stems from injuries that Madison sustained on August 9, 2016. About
one month after Madison was born, she was placed in a foster home in Poland as a
result of parental abuse and neglect. Approximately a year later, her birth mother had
... More...
   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

John Doe v. Google, Inc.

San Francisco, CA - Employment Law Lawyer

Google, Inc. and Alphabet, Inc. (collectively, Google), and Adecco USA,
Inc. (Adecco) require their employees to comply with various confidentiality
policies. John Doe, David Gudeman, and Paola Correa, who are current and
former Google and Adecco employees, sued Google and Adecco under the
Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act o... More...
   $0 (09-25-2020 - CA)

THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. KATHRYN JUANITA GREEN

Enid, OK - criminal defense attorney, Child Neglect











Green gave birth to a stillborn son sometime in the early spring of 2017... More...
   $0 (09-24-2020 - OK)

WHIPPLE v. PHILLIPS AND SONS TRUCKING

El Reno, OK - wrongful death, killed in the course of employment











The plaintiff/petitioner, Sharla Whipple (mother)... More...
   $0 (09-24-2020 - OK)

Roberto Amaya Pacas v. The State of Texas

Houston, TX - criminal law, Aggravated Assault












In October 2017, a grand jury returned three indictments against Pacas
relating to the same incident in which he shot his girlfriend and ... More...
   $0 (09-23-2020 - TX)

Stephanie Koussaya v. City of Stockton

Stockton, CA - Criminal Defense, Bank Robbery





Stephanie Koussaya was taken hostage, along with two other women, by three
armed bank robbers, Alex Martinez, Jaime Ramos, and Gilbert Renteria, Jr. Used as
human shields in order to facilitate the robbers’ es... More...
   $0 (09-22-2020 - CA)

STATE OF MONTANA v. CHRIS ARTHUR CHRISTENSEN

Hamilton, MT - Negligent Homicide












¶3 Christensen is a general physician who has practiced in California... More...
   $0 (09-18-2020 - MT)

STATE OF OHIO -vs- SCOTT E. EBERHARDT, JR

Mansfield, OH - Burglary












{¶2} In September 2018, Eberhardt’s aunt, Susane Malone, was living at
Colonial Hill Trailer Park at 741 Yale Avenue, Lot 2. When she left ... More...
   $0 (09-18-2020 - OH)

STATE OF OHIO -vs- DANIEL J. CAMPBEL

Lancaster, OH - child pornography











{¶2} Daniel Campbell was granted judicial release in State v. Campbell, Fairfield
County Common Pleas Case No. 2012 CR 00193 and placed... More...
   $0 (09-17-2020 - OH)

Crista Ramos, et al. v. Chad F. Wolf

San Francisco, CA - Immigration





The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is a congressionally created humanitarian program administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that provides temporary relief to nationals of designated foreign coun... More...
   $0 (09-15-2020 - CA)

City of Brentwood v. Department of Finance

This case involves another effort by the City of Brentwood (Brentwood) to obtain
reimbursement for construction costs incurred in five redevelopment projects. In City of
Brentwood v. Campbell (2015) 237 Cal.App.4th 488 (Brentwood I), we rejected
Brentwood’s contention that a statutory exception to the redevelopment dissolution
statutes allowed the city to retain funds previously re... More...
   $0 (09-10-2020 - CA)

Ex parte Donald Thomas Dehnert v. The State of Texas





A Harris County grand jury indicted appellant on 10 charges of possession
of child pornography in violation of section 43.26 of the Texas Penal Code.
Appellant then filed his “Second Amended Application for Writ of Habeas
Corpus,” asserting that section 43.... More...
   $0 (09-05-2020 - TX)

STATE OF KANSAS v. TONY R. ROAT















: In 2009, Tony Roat was charged with one count of mak... More...
   $0 (09-02-2020 - KS)

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