Following conviction and sentencing upon Defendants-
Appellants Douglas “Vance” Crooked Arm’s and Kenneth
Shane’s (collectively Defendants) conditional guilty pleas in
this case, Defendants appeal the district court’s denial of their
pretrial Motion to Dismiss Indictment for Failure to State a
Felony Claim. We consider the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of
1918 (MBTA).... More...   $0 (06-08-2015 - MT)

Seattle, WA - The State of Washington charged Christopher Monfort with first-degree murder in conjunction with the killing of a Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night in 2009.

Monfort pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Court Docket:

Sub Docket Date Docket Code Docket Description Misc Info
1 11-12-2009 INFORMATION Information
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David and Robert Donnert, circus performers, horse
trainers, and brothers, commenced this breach-of-contract action
against Feld Entertainment, Inc., which operates the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They alleged that Feld
Entertainment wrongfully terminated two contracts -- an
April 21, 2010 Circus Acts Employment Contract (the “Employment
Contract”) and an... More...   $0 (05-18-2015 - VA)

Cedar Rapids, IA - A man who illegally bought and transported black rhino horns from Oregon to Iowa pled guilty in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

James Hess, 39, from Maquoketa, Iowa, was convicted of one count of violating the Lacey Act, which prohibits interstate trade in certain wildlife, including wildlife determined to be endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Black rhinos are... More...   $0 (05-13-2015 - IA)

Defendant Marcos Estrada-Mederos pled guilty to illegal reentry for being found in the United States after having been previously deported following conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He was given a within-guideline sentence
2 No. 14-2417
of 57 months in prison. He appeals his sentence, chal-lenging the district court’s failure to address his principal arguments f... More...   $0 (04-29-2015 - IL)

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
No. 105,698
DUSKIN L. SIRUTA, by and on behalf of the heirs at law of
TATE DILLON SIRUTA, Deceased,
Appellant/Cross-appellee,
v.
MELISSA SIRUTA,
Appellee/Cross-appellant.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT
1.
A wrongful death action under K.S.A. 60-1901 et seq. can be brought against an alleged tortfeasor who is an heir a... More...   $0 (04-24-2015 - KS)

[¶1] Pursuant to a California court order, Herman Ter Haar (Father) has sole legal and
physical custody of the parties’ child (the child), subject to limited visitation by Heidi
Gjertsen (Mother). Mother appeals from the district court’s order denying her petition for
modification of the California order pertaining to custody, care and visitation with the
child. We conclude th... More...   $0 (04-14-2015 - WY)

In this habeas case, Jeremy Alan Williams challenges his Oklahoma conviction for
first-degree murder and his accompanying sentence of death. The district court denied
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relief but issued a certificate of appealability, giving Williams the ability to appeal his
claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. In addition, this court also agreed to hear
Williams’s sufficiency-o... More...   $0 (04-10-2015 - OK)

Plaintiff Marta Rodriguez appeals from the denial of her motion for relief from judgment, which was brought under the mandatory provisions of Code of Civil Procedure section 473, subdivision (b) (section 473(b)). The judgment was entered in favor of defendant Thomas Brill after the trial court dismissed Rodriguez’s complaint as a sanction for her failure to respond to discovery requests and to c... More...   $0 (02-20-2015 - CA)

A father appeals the visitation provisions of the decree dissolving his marriage. Specifically, the father challenges a geographical restriction in the decree that limits the father’s summer visitation with his son to visitation within the United States until the child is sixteen years old. The father contends he should be able to exercise summer visitation with his son in Israel prior to the ch... More...   $0 (02-11-2015 - IA)

¶1 This case, like Nevares v. M.L.S., 2015 UT 34, presents ques-tions concerning the applicability and constitutionality of Utah Code section 78B-6-111. That provision forbids a biological father
1 Associate Chief Justice Nehring acted on this case prior to his retirement.
IN RE ADOPTION OF J.M.S.
Opinion of the Court
2
from challenging an adoption when his child was conceived... More...   $0 (02-06-2015 - UT)

The City elected to take property belonging to the Whittingtons. As part of the process,
the City paid a deposit into the registry of the trial court, and the deposit was later placed in an
investment account with the permission of the parties. After the supreme court determined that the
condemnation of the property was proper, the district court awarded the investment income to theMore...   $0 (01-29-2015 - TX)

This case presents an important issue of first impression in the federal courts: whether a prohibition on the possession of firearms by a person “who has been committed to a mental institution,” 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), violates the Second Amendment.

Twenty-eight years ago, Clifford Charles Tyler was involuntarily committed for less than one month after allegedly undergoing an emotiona... More...   $0 (12-26-2014 - MI)

In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S. Ct. 1659 (2013), the Supreme
Court held that, with very limited exceptions, the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. §
1350 (“ATS”), does not apply extraterritorially to conduct that occurs outside the
United States. 133 S. Ct. at 1665. The actions that form the basis of this case
occurred far from the United States and many decades ago.... More...   $0 (12-12-2014 - NY)

LOS ANGELES – A San Gabriel man who attempted to smuggle nearly four dozen turtles from Southern California to Hong Kong has been sentenced to federal prison.

Kwong Wa Cheung, 36, was sentenced Tuesday to two months in federal prison. Following the completion of the prison term, Cheung will be on supervised release for two years, during which time he will serve two months in a residenti... More...   $0 (12-04-2014 - CA)

After its marina on Lake Texoma was damaged in a flood, Lake Texoma Highport, LLC sued its insurance broker, Insurance Alliance, and a London broker, Bowood Partners, Limited, because the policy in place at the time of the flood was not the policy Highport had requested. A jury returned a verdict in Highport’s favor. The trial court’s judgment ordered that Highport recover damages and attorney... More...   $0 (11-19-2014 - TX)

¶1 William Bolden is the putative father of a child (J.S.) born in 2011. The case before us on appeal is an adoption proceeding involving John and Jane Doe, the would-be adoptive parents of J.S. Bolden tried to intervene in and object to the Does‘ adoption of J.S. He was barred from doing so because he failed to preserve his legal rights as a father by filing a paternity affidavit within the ti... More...   $0 (11-04-2014 - UT)

RICHMOND, Va. – Brady Nurse, 38, of Bothell, Washington, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with the fraudulent reimbursement of expense invoices while he served as a Baptist missionary in Portugal.

Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and Adam S. Lee, Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Richmond Di... More...   $0 (10-21-2014 - VE)

¶1 In this breach of contract action filed by ATRIUM TRS II, L.P., d/b/a Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel ("Hotel") against Defendant University of Central Oklahoma ("UCO"), Hotel appeals the trial court's order denying its partial motion for summary judgment and granting judgment in favor of UCO. We reverse the order and remand for further proceedings.

FACTS

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Appellee Matthew Mazoff (“Plaintiff”) filed suit against appellant Paola Alvarado-Fernandez (“Defendant”), a Colombian citizen, for personal injuries sustained when Plaintiff’s car was struck by a vehicle driven by Defendant and rented from Alamo.1 Defendant moved to dismiss the case, alleging that (1) Plaintiff failed to strictly comply with two treaties in effect between Colombia and t... More...   $0 (10-08-2014 - FL)

Both Idaho and Nevada have passed statutes and enacted constitutional
amendments preventing same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize
same-sex marriages validly performed elsewhere.2 Plaintiffs, same-sex couples
1A disposition in Jackson v. Abercrombie, Nos. 12-16995 & 12-16998, is
forthcoming separately.
2Idaho Const. Art. III, § 28 (“A marriage between a man... More...   $0 (10-07-2014 - ID)

It’s often said that the path to perdition is paved with good intentions. It might also be said that sometimes the road to the courthouse is littered with the efforts of well-meaning people who never thought they’d be taking the trip. This is one of those kind of cases.
When he was fourteen years old, D.F. was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a serious disease that affects the colon. He ... More...   $0 (10-03-2014 - FL)

King Mountain Tobacco Company and the Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation (collectively
“Appellants”) sued the Attorney General of the State of
Washington for declaratory and injunctive relief from
Washington’s escrow statute, Wash. Rev. Code
§§ 70.157.005–70.157.030 (2013). The escrow statute
requires King Mountain to place money into escrow... More...   $0 (09-26-2014 - WA)

Oklahoma City, OK - Motion for summary judgment against ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of placing Ten Commandments monument on public property next to Oklahoma state capitol building sustained by Oklahoma County, Oklahoma District Judge Thomas Prince.

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Copies of the pleadings and motions filed by the parties are s... More...   $0 (09-19-2014 - OK)

Bruce Neimi, Eddie Evans, Donald a. Lowe and Dorris M. Orr v. City of Tulsa

Issue # 1.
Issue: DECLARATORY JUDGMENT (DECLARE)
Filed by: NEIMI, BRUCE
Filed Date: 07/08/2011
Party Name: Disposition Information:

Defendant: CITY OF TULSA
Disposed: DISMISSED - COURT ORDER, 08/27/2014. Judge.

Issue # 2.
Issue: DECLARATORY JUDGMENT (DECLARE)
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