Prisoners sentenced to death in the State of Oklahoma
filed an action in federal court under Rev. Stat. §1979, 42
U. S. C. §1983, contending that the method of execution
now used by the State violates the Eighth Amendment
because it creates an unacceptable risk of severe pain.
They argue that midazolam, the first drug employed in the
State’s current three-drug

A jury found that the defendant, the
Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted
negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan
Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child
molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking,
to serve as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary
School in Derby (Saint Mary’s School), where he sexuall

The underlying dispute in this case concerns where housing for low-income persons should be constructed in Dallas, Texas—that is, whether the housing should be built in the inner city or in the suburbs. This dispute comes to the Court on a disparate-impact theory of liability. In contrast to a disparate-treatment case, where a “plaintiff must establish that the defendant had a discrim

New Have, CT - Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to participating in a series of “swatting” incidents that occurred in Connecticut and other states in 2014.

“Swatting” is the making of a hoax call to any emergency service to elicit an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident. In

Placed in removal proceedings
after his arrest on state charges, Michael Jonathan Mazariegos
sought to forestall his removal based on his marriage to a United
States citizen and the hardship his removal would cause his family.
He prevailed before an immigration judge (IJ), but lost when the
government appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
Mazariegos did not se

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

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

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

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”

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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

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 argu

[¶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

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 sufficie

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

¶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 conceiv

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 t

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 the

¶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

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 a

¶1 After police discovered child pornography on Defendant Bradley Fuller‘s computer, he was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Fuller pled guilty to five counts of voyeurism but reserved the right to appeal the trial court‘s order denying his Motion to Suppress. On appeal, he challenges the warrant

¶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

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 de

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 resi

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), Richmo

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 an